Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve told us about the LCCC gig and wondered if we'd be interested, and we jumped at it.

It's our joy. We're hearing it come together for the first time. The gigs are great, of course, but those Mondays are our secret little thing.

Richard Brooks

Don is really the reason we're here. He's got a gigantic heart. He said he was going to get us in a place and he did.

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.

Mike Judge

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

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.

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.

Dave Brubeck

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.

Corin Nemec

I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis.

One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'

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.

Kelly Jones

Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.

Jamie Cullum

Oh yes, we've had some lovely gigs in the Liverpool area. They've been great.

Herbie Hancock

Sometimes you can practice something but what you wind up playing when you're out doing a gig is not what you practiced. What you learn is not necessarily what you practice.

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.

David Sanborn

I started out, obviously, as a sideman, and I had some really good gigs as a sideman.

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.

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?

Suzi Quatro

Do as many gigs as the good Lord sends. That's the only true training.

Michael Ironside

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

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.

Tina Brown

In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well for two-thirds of the money.

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.

George Duke

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

Liev Schreiber

The best gig is the one you've got.

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

John Lothrop Motley

The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.

Jo Brand

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

Lenny Bruce

TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.

Peter Tork

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.

Pauly Shore

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

Allison Mack

You know, I've never been a comic book person, just because that's not my gig and I don't have a television.