Top 188 Gigs Quotes

I’m just thankful for gigs.

A lot of people think, ‘Oh, you made ‘SNL.’ You’re set. You’re good.’ No. All there is gigs, and you go from one gig to another. And hopefully you get a good gig, and it lasts for a while, and you get good work and people remember it, and you have good memories of it.

I’d like to think I wouldn’t get booed off stage if I chose not to wear the head – I did gigs prior to having the head made and never had any problems. I’m aware though that, as a gimmick, it can create its own little monster as a brand.

Comics are regularly asked to perform for impossible rooms. They’re called ‘hell gigs.’

Before really high-pressured gigs I tend to freeze and crawl into bed. Under the covers you just feel safe for a little while.

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

When I was growing up, there were a few musicians who would have regular gigs at restaurants, and I always thought it was so cool and unexpected how they would spontaneously perform. Being the ambitious kid that I was, I got into it and really studied it. I was so inspired by it.

I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix ‘ology’ at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn’t a bad thing… I said to myself, ‘I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.’

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn’t do too many gigs.

In my experience, my music has drawn people of all ages, which is a real wonderful thing. And at my gigs you get everyone from six year olds to 90 year olds. And I find that really quite moving, actually.

The only goal is in the process. The process is in the thing with little flashes of light: those are the gigs, the live shows… it’s the life in between. That’s all I’ve got.

The videos I put on YouTube have expanded my audience beyond what I could have done at just a Hamburger Mary’s. People saw the videos, started booking me, and literally 40-plus countries and thousands of gigs later I can basically say that YouTube has bought me a house.

I’ve lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can’t repress my inclination to work against conventions.

The manners thing’s got worse. People think they can just text you if they’ve got bad news for you. It’s not on. And as for people taking pictures at gigs on their phones, that’s just weird.

I usually write at my kitchen table, nothing exotic. I don’t need any equipment. I don’t have to organise anyone else to rehearse, and when I do a reading, lots of women and girls come, whereas gigs are dominated by men. Not against men, but I want to communicate to women.

Being a comedian is harder if you can’t drive. You can’t take last-minute gigs as easily, because the on-the-day train ticket is your whole fee, if not more. Getting a lift off someone you’ve never met is normal, but still odd.

All gigs are good gigs. There’s never a bad one. Everything have a reason behind it; you just got to find that reason.

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

I’m not going to play gigs as Jamie xx. I’m just going to DJ. I’m not comfortable performing my songs on a stage. It’s not something I think I’m particularly good at.

I talked with labels and they wouldn’t help with my international career. They said, ‘Saara, if you’re in Finland you just have to sing in Finnish.’ That led to this situation where I felt very lonely. I was really sad and still I was doing gigs all the time. I’d go onstage crying but I was still trying to sing.

I did a few DJ gigs at empty clubs, sort of as a warm-up set before Flume was a thing. I did one when I got big enough, and I had five friends come down, and they were the only ones dancing. That was one of my earliest ones. I was super nervous.

I’m pretty lucky to work on both ‘CSI: NY’ and ‘Supernatural.’ Not bad gigs!

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.

I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.

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

Mary Gauthier’s great. Yeah, we’ve played a lot of gigs together. She’s really wonderful.

I’m not interested in gigs unless I really want to do them. I walked away from music in 1997, and then there was a greatest hits in 2002. Thank God, it didn’t do too well because the record company wouldn’t promote it.

In America sometimes I’ll play to a full black audience of young people, they will be really getting into this super-aggressive guitar music. It’s really great to know that people who are coming to the gigs don’t have any particular expectations.

In comedy terms, usually when the weather’s bad, it goes much better. When it’s sunny, people don’t come to see comedy gigs because they’re all really happy and don’t need cheering up.

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.

For me, social media isn’t just about connecting with friends and sharing photos; it’s a bigger, more tangled web that’s led me to jobs working in television, speaking gigs around the country, and it’s even helped me land my first book deal!

I love that – you get everything from seven-year-olds to 87-year-olds at Passenger gigs.

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.

My paid gigs allow me to pay for my documentaries, like a drug habit, I suppose. If I’m lucky enough to be working steady, however, it leaves little time for the documentary hobby.

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

My feet never touched the ground. Lots of good groups with crazy and unique images. It was wild. I spent all of my time doing gigs, TV appearances, interviews, or recording. I could write a book – and probably will.

Idris Elba saved my butt in a point in my career that he can do whatever he wants, and I will back his decision no matter what. He got me one of my first pretty big studio gigs, and we had never worked together… It was a time in my life where I really needed it. So whatever Idris wants to do, I’m down with.

I’m waiting for them to come up with a ‘Star Trek’ thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.

My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life, and we lived good.

I’ve got about 27 gigs right now. I’ve got radio, I’ve got television, I’ve got The Washington Post.

It’s always great to see grey hairs in a crowd; people who are older have been to a lot more gigs than the kids; they’ve seen everything, so seeing them in the crowd means we’ve earned their applause.

It’s important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I’ve been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it’s sad to me that some dancers don’t do more.

One of the things I figured out was that I was having good gigs when I wore jumpers. It was because I looked more like an outsider, so they expected me to talk about weird stuff rather than normal stuff.

You’ve seen one of the our gigs you’ve seen ’em all. But if you’re into the music, you’ll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I’ll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can’t stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don’t think so much like that.

I’ve always felt that if people just came to one of my gigs, all would be revealed.

As black Americans continue to be insulted and dismissed by protected white liberals, the Black Talented Tenth will continue to benefit from political donations, speaking engagements, national media presence, accolades as the official black leaders, and perpetual gigs on MSNBC and CNN.

I did a standup show called ‘Show Me the Funny,’ so from that I got some TV stuff and people would book me for gigs. I wasn’t really good enough at that point, so had to catch up with expectations.

I’ll do two gigs on a Saturday night until four o’clock in the morning, wake up, and do drag brunch on a Sunday, and then another party Sunday night. I definitely take what I do very seriously.

I cannot wait to come back to Glasgow. I know the place like the back of my hand. In fact, one of the jobs I had as a student was in Cineworld. And I was always at gigs in King Tut’s, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy’s and the Barras. I played Ultimate Frisbee down on Glasgow Green and pulled pints in O’Neill’s on Queen Street.

I still do lots of gigs where I’m the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I’ve got better at grabbing attention. I mean, my parents would play on bills with people like Judas Priest and get booed all the way through. But they stuck it out, got tough.