Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

Dave Chappelle

Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.

Bill Maher

Donald Rumsfeld also lost his gig last week. When asked what his future plans are, Rumsfeld said, 'What's a plan?'

Bill Bailey

Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.

Brian Molko

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

Amy Winehouse

Basically, I live to do gigs.

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.

Nicholas Hoult

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

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Corin Nemec

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.

Albert Einstein

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

Sally Deering

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

George R. R. Martin

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.

David Gray

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

Boethius

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

Bruce Springsteen

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Charles Spurgeon

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Arthur Honegger

Music is geometry in time.

David Byrne

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.