Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

Dave Chappelle

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

David Sanborn

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

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In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well for two-thirds of the money.

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.

Liev Schreiber

The best gig is the one you've got.

Jamie Cullum

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

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.

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.

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.

Lenny Bruce

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

Suzi Quatro

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

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?

Van Morrison

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

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.

Mike Judge

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

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.

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

Jo Brand

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

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

Sarah McLachlan

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

George Duke

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

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.

Gavin DeGraw

I can do a gig without an instrument