Average Quote by Dexter Holland

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

— Robert Plant

When I look back, I don't remember the best of the best. I don't remember arena shows with 20,000 people. I remember funky little…

— Vince Gill

One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was…

— Billy Gibbons

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

— Levon Helm

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

— Cheech Marin

We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.

— Jay DeMarcus

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

— Katie Melua

We were a very popular live band in London, packing in 6,000 people a night, and the record companies that came after us wanted…

— Dave Clark

I saw how hard it was for even really talented bands to reach an audience.

— Tom Anderson

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

— Carly Simon

One of my least favourite gigs was a festival. There weren't many people there and they were all talking.

— Aldous Harding

At least here in Stockholm if you go out to any of our 4 metal clubs and talk to ten guys you can be…

— Johan Hegg