Gigs Quotes

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

  Ronnie Wood

  Night, Prove

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

  Ed Sheeran

  Writing, Tunes

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

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• I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar.

  Grey DeLisle

  Song, Acting, Stories

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

  Johnny Thunders

  Thinking, People, Count On Me

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• 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

  Modern, Music Is, Mediums

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

  Jo Brand

  Nasty, Difficult

  "Portrait of the artist: Jo Brand, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2010.

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• 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.

  John Abercrombie

  Thinking, Play, Phrases

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• I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.

  John Bonham

  Drinking, Tired, Blow

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

  John Bonham

  Ukulele, Nerves, Fine

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• I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with my fans. They are important and I don't want them being hurt. They are a mad crowd.

  Justin Bieber

  Crush, Hurt, Hands

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• Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Writing, Who I Am, Years

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

  Johnny Ramistella

  Thinking, Cities, Soul

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

  Michael Ironside

  Actors, Unions, Firsts

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• 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

  People, Elements, Today

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• I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

  Arsenio Hall

  Jobs, Parent, Would Be

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• I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

  Julian Casablancas

  Clothes, Giving, Care

  Interview with Will Welch, www.gq.com. October 20, 2009.

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• I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

  Buddy Guy

  Happiness, Smile, Music

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

  Bill Bruford

  Best Practices, Shapes, Feels

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

  Nigel Kennedy

  Hate, Play, Complacency

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• 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

  Two, Sometimes, Week

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• I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.

  Bruce Willis

  Real, Mean, Makeup

  "Interview: Bruce Willis (16 Blocks)". trouble.city. February 13, 2006.

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• I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.

  John Lithgow

  Fun, Home, Long

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• 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.

  Chris Hemsworth

  School, Interviews, Pumps

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• Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.

  Wes Montgomery

  Night, Men, Kansas

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• 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.

  Norah Jones

  Weekend, College, Best Practices

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