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One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.

Your wig steers the gig.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

The Bassbone works great in the studio or on the live stage. Throw it in your gig bag and take it wherever you go.

The only goal is in the process. The process is the thing…with little flashes of light here and there. Those are the gigs, those are the live shows. But it's the life in between—that's all I got.

A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.

I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money.

I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

After a gig I get to the hotel all psyched-up from being on stage and get stuck into 'Homes and Interiors' magazine.

Lindsay Lohan isn't a DJ, but because of her celebrity power she can do a gig somewhere, put her name on a flyer, and she'll probably bring in more people and make more money than I ever will.

I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.

With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.

My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn't just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.

Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

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.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years.

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.

The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.

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

I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with my fans. They are important and I don't want them being hurt. They are a mad crowd.

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 want to be made better personally. That is the gig.

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

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.

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

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

Basically, I live to do gigs.

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

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.

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

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

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I can do a gig without an instrument

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.