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.

Alex Turner

I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

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.

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.

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.

Beck

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ray Stevenson

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.