Famous Quotes & Sayings

I talked to her on the phone (Saturday) and she had a little giggle in her voice and I knew she'd be OK.

Nicholas Hoult

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.

Van Morrison

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

Rachel Platten

I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.

Sarah McLachlan

The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from,

The guys just come to our gigs to pick up girls, if nothing else.

Mike Judge

I've got a huge, gigantic deal. We're talking about huge deals.

Jules Shear

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

Marianne Faithfull

I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

Pauly Shore

I giggle when I put myself down. It's just funny to me.

Stevie Jackson

There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket.

Vance Joy

When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.

Brian Molko

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

Sharon Stone

We've got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in their cheeks, and little Chicklets for teeth. Are they really prettier?

Ray Stevenson

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else.

Siobhan Fahey

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.

Michael Ironside

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

Dan Hawkins

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

Alex Turner

I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

Beck

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

We played the gig in Seattle in a 300-capacity club, and 27 people turned up.

David Friedman

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!

Sarah McLachlan

The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and we opened up for a Vancouver band.

Olly Murs

I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

You didn't realize how gigantic these things were. Wow!

Imelda May

I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.

Gina Bellman

Some people think it's an easy gig working as an extra, but you often have to stay very concentrated for long stretches in challenging conditions.

I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well.

David Bowie

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

We're hoping to sell our EP at our gigs and market it to radio stations and record labels. Our end goal is to get signed to a major label.

Imelda May

I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

Andrew Motion

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.