Gig Quotes
185 Gig quotes by 169 unique authors
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With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.
— Ronnie Wood
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
— Yann Tiersen
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When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was…
— Dhani Harrison
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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
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I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat…
— Al Roker
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame…
— Sam Kinison
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Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you…
— Ronnie Montrose
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If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little…
— Todd McFarlane
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The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last…
— Gerald Caiafa
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I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that…
— Heather Langenkamp
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We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us…
— Andy Partridge
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Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.
— Ray Stevenson
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Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got to learn a…
— Dreama Walker
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I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped around a couple…
— Timothy Simons
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What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
— Ian McShane
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The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want…
— Tyne Daly
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A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it…
— Allen Carr
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After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross…
— Jimmy Carr
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Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of…
— Ricky Jay
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At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.
— George Duke
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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…
— Siobhan Fahey
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I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.
— Mose Allison
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Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show…
— Kevin Eubanks
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When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener.…
— Zach Galifianakis
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Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of…
— Taylor Hanson
Who Wrote These Gig Quotes
169 authors contributed a total of 185 Gig Quotes, led by these top contributors: