Gigs Quotes · Page 4

Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting -…

— Bonnie Raitt

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.

— Anonymous

The thing about doing gigs is you make music, and then it is gone and that is being watched by thousands of…

— Katie Melua

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got…

— Ed Sheeran

I have known people throughout my years of playing where maybe they had a gig, but then lost the gig because they…

— Tony Palermo

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

— Brian Molko

I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I…

— Lewis Black

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs…

— Paul McCartney

I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting…

— Gary Numan

I felt (a) it was a great role and (b) I wanted to stay in town. I wanted to stop going to…

— John C. McGinley

I don't understand how those old bands did it. We worked out early on that if we did three gigs in a…

— Winston Marshall

I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom…

— Jesse McCartney

I couldn't get gigs because you need to be 18 in most venues. So I started doing videos. I wasn't thinking about…

— Nina Nesbitt

It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to…

— Jessie J

A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room…

— Anonymous

Television is where you earn regular money so you can plan a little bit but even then only when you have a…

— Bill Bailey

In the old days gigging was everything. The whole of life was about gigs. Everything was about waiting for the gig and…

— James Taylor

[Bill] Clinton and Vernon Jordan were talking about "the kitty," the pussycat every other sentence. Vernon got Monica [Lewinsky] a gig somewhere…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think if you sing a song for the first time to your mom and dad, or your friends, and they go,…

— Dierks Bentley

The summer gig turned into my day job. I was an arts administrator who helped make indie flicks. At the filmmakers' encouragement,…

— Karen Walton

In the States, this type of jam-band phenomena has opened it up for groups to improvise, admittedly more in the groove area,…

— John Scofield

The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I'd come into work…

— Al Kooper

I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped…

— Timothy Simons

I think my science career had an arc to it that peaked in, let's say 2003/2004. I was in hog heaven, working…

— Milo Aukerman

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

— Billy Bragg

I went in [Sweet Basil band] and played with them, maybe half the gig for almost eight years or more.

— Jon Gordon

Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs…

— Corey Smith

And it's all just from word of mouth. No big marketing. That means the folk who come to the gigs are there…

— Gerry Cinnamon

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

— Gavin Rossdale

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…

— Liam Gallagher

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

— Jon Gordon

I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would…

— Criss Angel

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

— Nina Conti

People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show…

— Joe Cocker

Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.

— Lenny Bruce

I might get a break again, and I might get back on telly. If I don't, I'll just keep doing stand-up and…

— Dominic Holland

It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called…

— Jay McShann

Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to…

— Buddy Guy

People recognize me all the time now, and there's lots of autograph hunting and smiling. But then I get to play gigs,…

— Lily Allen