Cities Quote by Jay McShann

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

— Questlove

I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.

— Bernard Fanning

Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few…

— Ben Webster

I grew up in Kansas City from when I was about two years old to my mid-teens. Kansas City at the time was an…

— Eldar Djangirov

We used to go to the jazz fest in Kansas City. And my mother and father took me.

— David Steward

My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the…

— Jessie Mueller

Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.

— Will Champion

My first gig was 'The Outsiders.' I was 14 there. And probably one of the more jading experiences in my whole life.

— Jay R. Ferguson

When I was a rookie, it was pretty much my first time outside of the city that I grew up in.

— George Hill

The first paid gig? It was back home in Terre Haute, Indiana, back in 1925, '26, when I was going to high school and…

— Scatman Crothers

I remember my first ever gig in town, I was very nervous. I had a big red shiny face. But that all disappeared after…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.

— James Iha