Gigs Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

I can do a gig without an instrument

It's fun! Just fun...I don't think of it as a cabaret act per se, I call it more of a gig, if that makes any sense

I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.

I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis.

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

It is tough, every time. The ensemble is great. I would always ask Andrew, "Is this how Hollywood is? Is this how every TV show and movie is?" And he was like, "No, dude. This is not. Do not get used to this. Be thankful that this is how your first gig is."

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.