Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

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.

Beck

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

Siri Hustvedt

My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted his approval.

Matthias Platzeck

I will do everything to pay back this gigantic offering of confidence.

Allan Carr

I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.

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

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.

Gavin DeGraw

I can do a gig without an instrument

Suzi Quatro

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

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.

David Sanborn

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

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.

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.

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.

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In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well for two-thirds of the money.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sarah McLachlan

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

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.