Gig Quotes - page 7

I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices, so he booked a gig for me without telling me. I only had four days to write it. I did a seven-minute set; the first four minutes were terrible, but the last two were amazing. (Marcus Brigstocke)
I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet. View quote
Kevin Bacon
I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything. View quote
Dylan Moran
Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten. View quote
Mel Gibson
It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition. View quote
Robert Plant
I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig. View quote
Ed Sheeran
At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist. View quote
George Duke
I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required. View quote
Chris Hemsworth
In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing. View quote
Norah Jones
When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13. View quote
Dhani Harrison
When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing. (Cate Blanchett)
Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes! View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
(On being prepped for a gig supported by the bank, UBS) She told me not to mention Nazi Gold, and of course if you tell a comedian not to do something, they'll immediately go and do it. So I went out on stage on a giant, neon Swastika, and sang "Gold, gold/always believe in your soul/you're indestructible-like the Third Reich!"" View quote
Bill Bailey
After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead. View quote
Jimmy Carr
Jack White, right, has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts. He's supposed to be the poster boy for the alternative way of thinking... I'm not having that, that's fucking wrong. Particularly Coca-Cola, it's like doing a fucking gig for McDonald's." View quote
Noel Gallagher
Hosting talk radio is an exotic, high-pressure gig that not many people are fit for, and being truly good at it requires skills so specialized that many of them don't have names. View quote
David Foster Wallace
When Kate Bush came along, sort of '78, I was in The Slits, and I remember I was sitting in a van outside our singer's house, waiting to do a gig, and "Wuthering Heights" came on the radio, and I was like "Ooh, WHAT? What's this?" And I kept waiting for the melody to repeat, because, you know, at that time, pop music was very much Radio One, you know it was repeating melodies very quickly, and this melody it meandered on, and this high-pitched voice warbling and dropping, but I was absolutely spellbound. View quote
Kate Bush
(On being prepped for a gig supported by the bank, UBS. View quote
Bill Bailey