Gigs Quotes

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.

You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz.

My first pilot gig; in fact my first job in television; was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.

There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.

I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.

I definitely had some moments, where, "Wow, these were some hard chords" on some gig.

I was occasionally getting calls for some things. But I would say, 22 to 29 was a lot of scuffling. Hoping to get called for bad wedding gigs and I did do an off-Broadway show for about 15 months.

[Charles McPherson] was kind enough to go to a record gig of mine where we recorded a song of his.

Teaching has definitely become a big part of my life in the past ten plus years. As it often does for many dedicated players. Because you can have some great gigs.

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

I wrote for Roseanne. I wrote her stand-up act with her. I wrote with Tom Arnold. There was a period when I was working with them pretty steadily. But I would take brief gigs here and there.

I remember Gale Gordon was in the pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], and it was one of my very first professional gigs without having an adult take me to the job.

To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.

I've always loved working on series. The crew feels like a family and it's nice to have a regular gig that you can count on.

I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night.

I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

Luce blushed. "Then what kind of angel are you?" "I'm sort of in between gigs right now," Daniel said.

The best gig is the one you've got.

People recognize me all the time now, and there's lots of autograph hunting and smiling. But then I get to play gigs, which are amazing. It's a good job.

Even to play a dead body; that'd be an easy gig.

I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.

My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

Nothing is worse than going home and having not played a gig.

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really.

If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.

The art helps, between the acting gigs. I feel that if I can sing in Mamma Mia! then goddammit, I can hang a few paintings, give people lots of cocktails, and have a good time.

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f - - up.

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.

I use Twitter as a tool to get involved with people, to sell tickets to gigs where I can stand in a room and smell the audience - and I love that!

Every time I do a gig, my goal is getting new fans.

I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.

Being a rock 'n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.

The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.

Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.

My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called "Love for Sale," and that was my first role in any film.

I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?