Gigs Quotes

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

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.

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.

Your wig steers the gig.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

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.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

No seriously... when there's families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there's always someone who's got something going, like the tour manager.

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

You never know which gig is going to be your last.

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.

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.

TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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