Gigs Quotes - Page 9

• I have known people throughout my years of playing where maybe they had a gig, but then lost the gig because they didn't really move forward with them.

  Tony Palermo

  Moving, Years, People

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• The summer gig turned into my day job. I was an arts administrator who helped make indie flicks. At the filmmakers' encouragement, I tried shooting a couple of shorts of my own. Directing was stressful, it was not my strength. But writing the scripts and helping others with their scripts - that was a gas. Making stuff up the way I wanted to see it was the biggest kick I ever experienced.

  Karen Walton

  Summer, Encouragement, Art

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• One of the greatest pleasures of working on shows is that I enjoy watching the actors - who are all younger than me now - and their careers. I love seeing how they're doing and seeing them getting good gigs and doing well.

  Kelly Bishop

  Careers, Actors, Pleasure

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I remember early on, for instance, having to play wedding gigs, that I hated playing the music. Now I don't have to play music that I don't like. I only get to do what I enjoy, so that's pretty lucky.

  Norah Jones

  Play, Lucky, Remember

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the one-on-one gigs connecting with the fans - is the most important thing. That will help build your fan base. They'll talk about you, and word spreads. Those things are just as important as knowing how to play an E chord.

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, Play, Knowing

  "Joan Jett Opens Up About Her Biggest Transformation Yet And Looks Back On What Could've Been". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. September 10, 2013.

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• How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

  Eleanor Clark

  Confusion, Racing, Style

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f - - up.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Thinking, Concerts, Shows

  Source: www.nola.com

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• If you're looking to freelance, just get as many gigs going as you can, and you can make it work... It's about getting as many side projects as possible, keeping as many balls in the air as you can, and what you're doing, basically, is diversifying your portfolio, with the same kinds of rewards. One falls through, and you still have another one to work on.

  Chris Hardwick

  Fall, Air, Balls

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2008.

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• Sure, theater is tough because you're not home at night a lot and you work on weekends - every job has its downside. But to do something that you love doing for two hours a night, that's a pretty sweet gig.

  Robert Sean Leonard

  Sweet, Jobs, Home

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• I'll tell you what I think in general about people who want to make their Broadway debut that are not trained stage actors. Don't they know, Broadway ain't for sissies? It is a tough gig. You are responsible, physically, mentally, emotionally, for eight shows a week, at the top of your game. It's not easy.

  Patti LuPone

  Thinking, Games, Eight

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• T.V.s weird because its both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

  Caitlin Fitzgerald

  Actors, Process, Stage

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• I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.

  Steve Valentine

  Years, Feelings, Magic

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• Why not go down the pub? A guy once came up to me at a gig and asked me if I had MySpace. I said, 'This is my space, and you're invading it.'

  Paul Weller

  Space, Guy, Why Not

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

  Harvey Pekar

  Creative, Life Is

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

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• Nothing is worse than going home and having not played a gig.

  Nicki Minaj

  Home, Going Home

  Source: observer.com

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• The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play 'Purple Rain.'

  Jason Aldean

  Running, Rain, Thinking

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• 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.

  Kevin Bacon

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

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

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• I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.

  Violante Placido

  Writing, Albums, Firsts

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

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• Playing in (the Neurotic Outsiders) with John Taylor was great. A lot of pussy every time we played a gig. So many chicks. It was, like, 'Wow, John, really? So this is what it was like, huh?' And there would be like a couple guys with mohawks and a guy with, like, a jean jacket coming in to see me and Jonesy!

  Duff McKagan

  Couple, Guy, Pussy

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• It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

  Arthur Smith

  Awards, Not Worth It, Knows

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• I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Jobs, Night

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• I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.

  Violante Placido

  Song, Crazy, Mistake

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

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• When I'm home, I practice four or five hours a day...I warm up for an hour before a gig.

  Art Farmer

  Home, Practice, Four

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• When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.

  Lake Bell

  Tired, Responsibility, Acting

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, uk.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• I refuse, whenever possible, to do shows on a Monday. I don't do gigs on a Monday, because nobody laughs on Mondays. Everybody wants Monday to be over. I just won't do 'em. But the rest of the time, in all honesty, it doesn't matter where you are: if something's funny, people laugh.

  John Bishop

  Monday, Honesty, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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