Gigs Quotes

The best gig is the one you've got.

— Liev Schreiber

Your wig steers the gig.

— Lord Buckley

Basically, I live to do gigs.

— Amy Winehouse

I'm just thankful for gigs.

— Tony Hale

I can do a gig without an instrument

— Gavin DeGraw

I've done a lot of strange gigs.

— Tim Dillon

I love to play gigs.

— Katey Sagal

Playing gigs is what it's about for me.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

You never know which gig is going to be your last.

— Mika

There's a lot of downtime when we're not on stage leading up to the gigs.

— Jeff Gutt

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

— Aziz Ansari

How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

— Eleanor Clark

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

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Christmas coming means one thing for comedians: office party gigs!

— Katherine Ryan

The early Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets gigs were wild.

— Shakin' Stevens

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

— Joe Cocker

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

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

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

— Tom Waits

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

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

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

You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical…

— Harry Connick, Jr

Playing in (the Neurotic Outsiders) with John Taylor was great. A lot of pussy every time we played a gig. So many…

— Duff McKagan

Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and…

— Garrison Keillor

I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then…

— Kaskade

I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish…

— Regina Spektor

My father told me when I first started that standup is exciting and I should pursue it, but that writing would be…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

Lindsay Lohan isn't a DJ, but because of her celebrity power she can do a gig somewhere, put her name on a…

— Neil Armstrong

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. It’s just…

— Ed Sheeran

I think I probably learned something from almost every gig that I've done, not only because each occurred at a different phase…

— Vinnie Colaiuta

I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with…

— Maria Bamford

People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion…

— Juan Enriquez

I think it's because we're not purists, we're open to all kinds of music. We're not afraid to take chances and we…

— Ali Shirazinia

I'd like to give every young teacher some good news. Teaching is a very easy job. Administrators will tell you what to…

— Rafe Esquith

The hour on stage is rarely a drag. In fact, I can't really say that its ever a drag. The few times…

— Joel Plaskett

I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me.…

— Syd Barrett

I got to talk to people like Mel [Lewis] and Milt Hilton and Benny Carter and Clark Terry and... Jay McShann. I…

— Jon Gordon