Gigs Quotes

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.

If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

You never know which gig is going to be your last.

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement.

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.

Obviously I still gig on my own, but I've always heard my music with a band.

Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else.

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

One of my first gigs was as a guest star, and I was supposed to be a big imposing character.

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

All my shows is about a party. We party from the door then we get into the gig, get back to the middle then we gonna party at the end. It's all a good time.

When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.

I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.

Television is where you earn regular money so you can plan a little bit but even then only when you have a regular gig. If you're just doing the odd appearance, you don't know if it will carry on.

Donald Rumsfeld also lost his gig last week. When asked what his future plans are, Rumsfeld said, 'What's a plan?'

I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.

Yeah, playing anywhere from three to five gigs a week definitely [helped]. I think all the practice throughout the years and doing what I do paid off.

Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.

T.V.s weird because its both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

The establishment? Well, guess what? Donald Trump now is the establishment. His primary opponents, many of them are interviewing for White House gigs.

As a fanboy myself, one of the fun things about the gig has been every time I get a new script, I get to find out more about his day - to-day life and what goes on and what his relationships are.

Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.

I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would know who I was and I wouldn't have a gig.

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

I would say, you can never do enough gigs and you can never do enough songs. Make sure that every opportunity you can, play a show and every opportunity you can, write a song.