Gigs Quotes
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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.
Adam Sandler -
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
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I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.
Violante Placido -
It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a warehouse for a bit for about a year. We did our first gig in June 2003 and we played a few gigs in and around Sheffield for a bit then started doing gigs outside of Sheffield about this time last year, recording demos while all this was going on.
Alexander David Turner Arctic Monkeys -
We've never done a big tour! At the moment we're juggling our gigs around work but hopefully that won't be the case come May.
Kate Jackson -
One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion. After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience. We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn't exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.
Billy Gibbons ZZ Top -
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.
George Benson -
Nothing is worse than going home and having not played a gig.
Nicki Minaj
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I never have such luxury of leisure time. But whenever I get some time, I catch up on watching movies, keep going to theatre to watch plays, gigs of my actor friends.
Rithvik Dhanjani -
I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'
Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC -
I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.
Ellie Goulding -
Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold,
W. S. Gilbert -
We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.
Liam Gallagher Oasis
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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.
Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age -
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.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
Most of our first gigs were in typical Devon pubs where you just go and sit down with a drink and watch VH-1 on the telly. They really didn't want to see a band. All they wanted was a quiet pint and we were in the corner just making a racket...
Dominic Howard Muse -
People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
Seth Godin -
I don't understand how those old bands did it. We worked out early on that if we did three gigs in a row and went out afterwards, we'd lose our voices. We know our limits.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons -
You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
Ernest Hemingway
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia Woolf -
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.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Those who say that Serena isn't serious about tennis; she wants to go Hollywood. That's true, about Hollywood. I would love to get a lot of acting gigs. But you wouldn't believe the stuff I've turned down because of my tournament schedule...I would do well beside (comedian) Chris Tucker.
Serena Williams -
Being someone who plays gigs and finding many, many memorable ones in different ways, I guess I'd have to say I don't really have a single favourite one that I could pick out.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth