Gigs Quotes - Page 2

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

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.

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.

Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.

It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing.

The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry.

We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

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

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

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

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

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

No seriously... when there's families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there's always someone who's got something going, like the tour manager.

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

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

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

I didn't get paid for my first gig supporting Usher Raymond in the Temple in Tottenham when I was 17 or 18. I bugged the promoter to let me play and it went down a storm. And after that I got loads of gigs, which were paid.

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

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

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

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