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• A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.

  Johnny Thunders

  Thinking, People, Count On Me

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• Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear

  Brian May

  Unique, People, Giving

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• Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Halos, Lamps

  1919 'Modern Fiction'.

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• I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.

  Joe Rogan

  Dream, Obscurity, News

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

  Brian Molko

  Outsiders, Outcast, Conventions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

  Kenny G

  Fusion, Joining, Touring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Billy Bragg

  Rocks, Racism, Racist

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• Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

  Jules Shear

  Figures

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• One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

  Mary Lou Williams

  Home, Sick, Support

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• In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

  Beck

  Airplane, Play, Japan

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• I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis.

  Corin Nemec

  Pilots, Murphy, Decided

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• For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

  Eric Bogosian

  Long, People, Pay

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• I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!

  Jesse McCartney

  Mom, Hard Times, Issues

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Basically, I live to do gigs.

  Amy Winehouse

  "Winehouse: Drink, Drugs And Me", www.mirror.co.uk. February 13, 2007.

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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 bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.

  Todd McFarlane

  Cute, Artist, Funny Things

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• For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

  Ed Harris

  Done, Truman Show, Week

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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 of a puzzlement.

  Al Roker

  Years, Stills, Thrilling

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• I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

  Eddie Izzard

  Trying, Gaps, Used

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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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

  Play, London, Moments

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• I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'

  Angus Young

  Yelling, Guitar, Play

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• Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.

  Mike Stern

  Music, Jazz, Sometimes

  "Mike Stern: About The Music". Interview with All About Jazz, www.allaboutjazz.com. September 23, 2004.

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• The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

  Ed Sheeran

  Writing, Tunes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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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 ritual. There's a congregation.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Modern, Music Is, Mediums

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• I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar.

  Grey DeLisle

  Song, Acting, Stories

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• I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

  Arsenio Hall

  Jobs, Parent, Would Be

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