Gigs Quotes - Page 7

• I think the one-on-one gigs connecting with the fans - is the most important thing. That will help build your fan base. They'll talk about you, and word spreads. Those things are just as important as knowing how to play an E chord.

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, Play, Knowing

  "Joan Jett Opens Up About Her Biggest Transformation Yet And Looks Back On What Could've Been". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

  Beck

  Band, Flyers, Contact

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.

  Lenny Bruce

  Laughter, Pain, Struggle

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.

  Debbie Harry

  New Year, Years, Bars

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• Why not go down the pub? A guy once came up to me at a gig and asked me if I had MySpace. I said, 'This is my space, and you're invading it.'

  Paul Weller

  Space, Guy, Why Not

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• I hope, my career is never predictable. And my interests are diverse in that way. I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct. And then when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

  Lake Bell

  Mean, Responsibility, Writing

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• When I was a little kid, I used to say, "I would rather host the Oscars than win an Oscar." To me, that seemed like the more appealing, fun gig.

  Seth Rogen

  Fun, Kids, Winning

  "Seth Rogen Talks Hosting the 2012 Spirit Awards, THE APOCALYPSE, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS 2, His Favorite Films of the Year, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast.

  Lewis Black

  Talking, People, Littles

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. June 7, 2006.

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• Nothing is worse than going home and having not played a gig.

  Nicki Minaj

  Home, Going Home

  Source: observer.com

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• Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.

  Harvey Pekar

  Creative, Life Is

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

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• There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Talking, Periods, Certain

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• I'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.

  John Lydon

  Running, Self, Alcohol

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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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 of regional theaters, and I was about to go back to Maine to work at a summer Shakespeare theater there. I didn't want to just jump around the country from gig to gig. I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community.

  Timothy Simons

  Summer, Country, Jobs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Eleanor Clark

  Confusion, Racing, Style

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

  Jo Brand

  Three, Nervous, Week

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• You're not gonna win every outing. I don't mean game. You're not gonna beat everybody out for the top job. Sometimes you're gonna be the best, but you're not gonna get the gig because there are other factors, people making the decision might like somebody more than they like you. It's vicious. And you have to be totally, singularly focused on yourself. Not in a bad way.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Mean, Winning

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Your wig steers the gig.

  Lord Buckley

  Wigs, Steers

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• My cousin Joey played the drums. We used to go to his house, I liked beating on his drums. I beat the hell out of 'em, you know? Finally in 1961, I don't know, I guess I was about 15, I got serious about it. My parents bought me a little drum set and I was playing for about 6 months when I started doing gigs.

  Carmine Appice

  Cousin, House, Parent

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• 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 name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.

  Regina Spektor

  Knitting, Names, Piano

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• My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.

  Toby Keith

  Song, Teenager, Writing

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• Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.

  Corey Smith

  People, Musician, Austin

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• It was like an explosion. You just don't get ready for it. I don't even know how you can, because you just don't expect it. For me, up until that point, you would do a gig, and then you'd go out and try to find the next job.

  Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

  Jobs, Trying, Next

  Source: aalbc.com

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

  Yngwie Malmsteen

  School, Bigs

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• It's fun! Just fun...I don't think of it as a cabaret act per se, I call it more of a gig, if that makes any sense

  Frances Ruffelle

  Fun, Thinking, Cabaret

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• 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 work really hard, and we gig relentlessly, we've been very active in the studio, we're active with the record labels that we have. So I think it's like a full-on assault. We've stalled in many different directions and it kept us in the limelight for so many years.

  Ali Shirazinia

  Thinking, Years, Different

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