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Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. -- Brian Molko
My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing. -- Van Morrison
You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better. -- Liam Gallagher
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings. -- Chantal Kreviazuk
I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with my fans. They are important and I don't want them being hurt. They are a mad crowd. -- Justin Bieber
I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals. -- Gerard Butler
Basically, I live to do gigs. -- Amy Winehouse
My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened. -- Peter Tork
Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful. -- Guy Clark
Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs. -- Kelly Jones
Do as many gigs as the good Lord sends. That's the only true training. -- Suzi Quatro
My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny. -- Meat Loaf
The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs. -- Neal Schon
I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time. -- Kathy Griffin
The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. -- Ed Sheeran
I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs. -- Johnny Ramistella
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine. -- John Bonham
Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there. -- Jules Shear
Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear -- Brian May
I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan. -- John Bonham
Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting. -- Gavin Rossdale
I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile. -- Buddy Guy
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. -- Virginia Woolf
Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming. -- Clare Balding
I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough. -- Johnny Vegas
I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can. -- Eddie Izzard
Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience. -- Page McConnell
People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the bands existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. Im sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared. -- Greg Ginn
My feet never touched the ground. Lots of good groups with crazy and unique images. It was wild. I spent all of my time doing gigs, TV appearances, interviews, or recording. I could write a book - and probably will. -- Suzi Quatro
I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment. -- Arsenio Hall
Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally. -- Roger Daltrey
It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there. -- Greg Ginn
Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that. -- John Abercrombie
I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!' -- Angus Young
I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun. -- Ed Sheeran
When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every day, in real life, like we're playing onstage. I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Or maybe helps you pick up chicks. -- Julian Casablancas
It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more. -- Mandy Moore
I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there. -- Ed Sheeran
Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it. -- Tony Iommi
I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part. -- Maria Bamford
When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year that I still play every now and then for people. -- Hunter Hayes
You can see girls getting too excited and they start crying or worse. In a lot of these countries they don't get a lot of gigs to go to, so when they get to see their favorite artist they take full advantage of it. Obviously the excitement builds up too much for some on the night and they get a bit... crazy. -- Niall Horan
I cannot wait to come back to Glasgow. I know the place like the back of my hand. In fact, one of the jobs I had as a student was in Cineworld. And I was always at gigs in King Tut's, Nice 'n' Sleazy's and the Barras. I played Ultimate Frisbee down on Glasgow Green and pulled pints in O'Neill's on Queen Street. -- Colin Morgan
I have visualizations where I'm living in a really cool place - probably outside of town - with a really dope studio where I can record music or film things. Just have my own mini production house. That's really the thing I'd love to end up with the most and only do gigs when I needed to and also amass a little bit of a crew around me. -- Reggie Watts
Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative. -- Harvey Pekar
I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs. -- Marianne Faithfull
I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs. -- Alan Davies
I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited. -- Alex Turner
I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs! -- A. J. Buckley
You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs. -- Van Morrison
I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post. -- Tony Kornheiser
I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs. -- Violante Placido
I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. -- Billy Bragg
Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing. -- Taryn Manning
For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs. -- Tommy Bolin
Luce blushed. "Then what kind of angel are you?" "I'm sort of in between gigs right now," Daniel said. -- Lauren Kate
People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself. -- Seth Godin
I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time. -- Nicholas Hoult
One of my first gigs was as a guest star, and I was supposed to be a big imposing character. -- David Giuntoli
One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.' -- K. A. Applegate
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention. -- Alan Parsons
It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing. -- Don Rickles
The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape. -- Bill Bruford
I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that. -- Lake Bell
After 'Rock Star,' I was definitely doing more high profile gigs. I was playing in Iceland. I was playing in Canada. -- Josh Logan
I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often. -- Jennifer Carpenter
I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs. -- Kevin Eubanks
The establishment? Well, guess what? Donald Trump now is the establishment. His primary opponents, many of them are interviewing for White House gigs. -- Chuck Todd
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. -- Joshua Homme
I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62. -- Johnny Ramistella
"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one. -- Guy Garvey
I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label. -- Norah Jones
To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling. -- June Squibb
For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me. -- Eric Bogosian
What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men? -- Thomas Carlyle
Yeah, playing anywhere from three to five gigs a week definitely [helped]. I think all the practice throughout the years and doing what I do paid off. -- Bo Bice
I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while. -- Paul McCartney
When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory. -- Alan Dale
In my early performing days, I played gigs under the pseudonym Whitey McFearsun. I painted my face blue, wore crimson lipstick, and strung on some tight silver latex pants. -- Shawn Amos
People recognize me all the time now, and there's lots of autograph hunting and smiling. But then I get to play gigs, which are amazing. It's a good job. -- Lily Allen
I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress. -- Laura Bell Bundy
Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you. -- Mike Stern
I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally. -- Jo Brand
Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously. -- Corey Smith
In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs. -- Beck
There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away. -- Jimi Hendrix
My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn't just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure. -- Bill Bailey
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. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
I use Twitter as a tool to get involved with people, to sell tickets to gigs where I can stand in a room and smell the audience - and I love that! -- Rob Delaney
You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them. -- Dhani Harrison
The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years. -- Andy Partridge
The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really. -- Peter Serafinowicz
I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band. -- Travis Barker
I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion. -- Kenny G
I would say, you can never do enough gigs and you can never do enough songs. Make sure that every opportunity you can, play a show and every opportunity you can, write a song. -- Ed Sheeran
When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style. -- Freddie Hubbard

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