Gigs Quotes - Page 13

• 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

  Musician, Jazz, Worst

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• I want to have a good time myself. I don't want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that?

  Tom Hanks

  Thinking, Want, Matter

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• The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I'd come into work and I'd go into this cubicle that had a little upright piano and fake white cork bricks on the wall, and a little slate that came out of the wall that you could actually write on. And a door that locked from the outside. Every day from 10 to 6, we'd go in there and pretend that we were 13 year old girls and write these songs. That was the gig.

  Al Kooper

  Girl, Song, Morning

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• Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around.. you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there ...", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves ... "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Beautiful, Girl

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• If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing is the best gig in the whole business, as far as I'm concerned. It's the only job where you don't have to wait for someone to tell you what to do. You just sit down and make s**t up.

  Robert Mark Kamen

  Jobs, Writing, Games

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• The only goal is in the process. The process is the thing…with little flashes of light here and there. Those are the gigs, those are the live shows. But it's the life in between—that's all I got.

  Jeff Buckley

  Light, Goal, Here And There

  Electronic Press Kit for "Grace" album, 1994.

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• 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

  Bags, Stage, Studios

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• My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

  Questlove

  Cities, Radio, Firsts

  "Interview: How Questlove Stays Occupied" by Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2011.

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• Our parents had to drive us to the gig, or even go in with us because of the liquor laws. The owners were really scared to death that we'd drink. We usually just went out somewhere and smoked weed. I don't smoke anymore, but back then we used to smoke quite a lot.

  Dexter Romweber

  Weed, Marijuana, Law

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• I did a gig in the U.S. once for the homeless. I said 'It's nice to see so many bums on seats.'

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Nice, Humor

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• I was always pretty broad. I've had a couple bad experiences. One time, I showed up late for a gig in Brooklyn at an Italian restaurant. I ran on stage, did my show, and then some guy in the audience threatened to kill me because he didn't like my joke. Instead of talking to him, I just ran off stage. And then, because I was late, the owner of the restaurant threatened to kill me. And I was 19 years old and so scared that I almost started crying. But, I've done every gig you can imagine, in every state.

  Nick Swardson

  Couple, Italian, Talking

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.

  Colin Farrell

  Morning, Fun, Reading

  "Colin Farrell Talks Saving Mr. Banks, How Passionate He Was About Signing on, What He Collects, Winter’s Tale, Miss Julie, Solace, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Every time I do a gig, my goal is getting new fans.

  Sharon Jones

  Goal, Fans

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 15, 2010.

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• I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

  Mark Strong

  Successful, Black And White, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Basically that you can do anything. If you pool your resources,and just give up the idea that you're going to act like a normal person or sleep, if you want it hard enough and do it well enough, it happens. A lot of really talented people either sort of get crushed under the wheel of the movie studio system or desperately try and get their next gig in TV. I understand why, because we've all got to put food on the table and the brass ring is out there, we'd all like to be making the Emmy-winning shows and the blockbusters and all that, but at the same time you could be doing stuff yourself.

  Joss Whedon

  Giving Up, Sleep, Winning

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

  Geena Davis

  Family, Work, Reality

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• If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

  Nina Conti

  Thinking, Flu, Evening

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• Stand-up is a real art form in itself and one that I really think to be good at you have to devote your entire life to. It's the really, really good ones that end up getting to do the things that I like to do: movies, TV shows, and stuff like that. It's a really hard gig and it just never called to me.

  Rob Corddry

  Art, Real, Thinking

  "The GQ&A: Rob Corddry". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. July 21, 2011.

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• I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part.

  Maria Bamford

  Attitude, Nice, Artist

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• Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold,
  And the mate of the Nancybrig,
  And a bos'sun tight, and a midshipmite,
  And the crew of the captain's gig!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Captains, Sun, Crew

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Yarn Of The Nancy Bell”

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• Part of the acting gig is when you're let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn't get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.

  Jack Black

  Fun, Writing, Acting

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• I think I probably learned something from almost every gig that I've done, not only because each occurred at a different phase of my development, but because each one had something different to offer. Ideally, you should be able to get something out of everything, positive or negative. And if it's negative, try to turn it into some kind of learning experience.

  Vinnie Colaiuta

  Thinking, Trying, Negative

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• I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki.

  Eric Hernandez

  Home, School, Band

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

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Want, Better Person

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• What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

  William H. Macy

  Self, Actors, Pretending

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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