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

Authors on Gigs Quotes: Jon Gordon Ed Sheeran Chiwetel Ejiofor Eddie Izzard Jo Brand Alvin Lee Lenny Bruce Bill Bailey Criss Angel Lake Bell Beck Tony Iommi Kevin Bacon Andy Partridge Heather Langenkamp Kay Panabaker Mick Fleetwood Catherine Mary Stewart Steven Van Zandt John Lydon Ed Harris Terrence J Nina Conti Burt Reynolds Bill Burr Ozzy Osbourne Mel Gibson Dave Lombardo Siobhan Fahey Janina Gavankar Caitlin Fitzgerald Wynton Marsalis Kelly Bishop
2.
At the moment I have my family coming out with me on the road. We have our own vehicle and its more like a family vacation. I just stop, do some gigs, and take off. Its a lot more fun now with the family.
Dave Lombardo

3.
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

4.
Your wig steers the gig.
Lord Buckley

5.
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

6.
The Bassbone works great in the studio or on the live stage. Throw it in your gig bag and take it wherever you go.
Victor Wooten

7.
A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.
Johnny Thunders

8.
I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.
Yngwie Malmsteen

9.
I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.
Ellie Goulding

10.
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.
John Bonham

11.
I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.
Henry Rollins

12.
I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money.
Lenny Bruce

13.
Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it.
Tony Iommi

14.
After a gig I get to the hotel all psyched-up from being on stage and get stuck into 'Homes and Interiors' magazine.
Gary Barlow

15.
I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
Yann Tiersen

16.
Lindsay Lohan isn't a DJ, but because of her celebrity power she can do a gig somewhere, put her name on a flyer, and she'll probably bring in more people and make more money than I ever will.
Neil Armstrong

17.
With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.
Ronnie Wood

18.
Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
Bill Bailey

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I still remember the first gig where I got people going, it was Rascals in New Jersey, and the place was packed. I was scared. People were expecting me to be funny. I gotta be honest, every time I walk into a club, it's that same fear.
Bill Burr

20.
The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.
Ed Sheeran

21.
I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
Nigel Kennedy

22.
When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.
Adam Sandler

23.
It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing.
Don Rickles

24.
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

25.
We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.
Andy Partridge

26.
Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.
Guy Clark

27.
I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.
Alan Davies

28.
I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.
Paul McCartney

29.
The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.
John Lydon

30.
Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.
Harvey Pekar

31.
But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.
Squarepusher

32.
I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.
Keith Carter

33.
Basically, I live to do gigs.
Amy Winehouse

34.
I didn't get paid for my first gig supporting Usher Raymond in the Temple in Tottenham when I was 17 or 18. I bugged the promoter to let me play and it went down a storm. And after that I got loads of gigs, which were paid.
Lemar

35.
The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry.
Ben Schwartz

36.
I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.
Chiwetel Ejiofor

37.
For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
Ed Harris

38.
At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.
George Duke

39.
The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.
Dave Brubeck

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I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.
Tony Kornheiser

41.
What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
Ian McShane

42.
I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.
Michael Ironside

43.
Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.
Jules Shear

44.
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
Bill Wyman

45.
You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
Van Morrison

46.
I can do a gig without an instrument
Gavin DeGraw

47.
Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.
Kelly Jones

48.
Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.
Dave Chappelle

49.
Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.
Aziz Ansari

50.
My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
Tom Waits