Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

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.

Hugh Laurie

The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder sometimes whether all music actually comes from women, whether the first glimmering of music is a mother soothing a baby.

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.

Jamie Carragher

I look at what is happening with Ryan Giggs at Manchester United now and I am dismayed that Liverpool are letting that experience leave,

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.

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.

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.

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

Kelly Jones

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

Marianne Faithfull

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

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.

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

Mike Judge

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

Michael Ironside

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

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.

Jules Shear

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

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.

John Lothrop Motley

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

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.

Liev Schreiber

The best gig is the one you've got.

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.

Gavin DeGraw

I can do a gig without an instrument

Joshua Homme

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

Jo Brand

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

George Duke

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