Top 385 Gigs Quotes & Sayings

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

When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.

It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a warehouse for a bit for about a year. We did our first gig in June 2003 and we played a few gigs in and around Sheffield for a bit then started doing gigs outside of Sheffield about this time last year, recording demos while all this was going on.

The early Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets gigs were wild.

Gigs in Scotland are always so much fun.

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.

We like people who come to our gigs to dress sharp and to impress.

I felt that, as time went on, an audience gets to know you and in a weird way, you kind of feel like you get to know the audience a little bit. When I'm doing stand-up gigs now, I feel like I'm doing gigs in front of people I know. I think that's the result of doing late-night shows for so long.

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.

Comics are regularly asked to perform for impossible rooms. They're called 'hell gigs.'

Christmas coming means one thing for comedians: office party gigs!

I had a drag mom but she didn't really teach me about makeup. She just basically stuck me into gigs. And then I borrowed clothes from her and her drag to play the gigs.

One of my first gigs was as a guest star, and I was supposed to be a big imposing character.

Doing gigs is great, but when you come together for a production in the theatre, that is something I have a lot of respect for.

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

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

One of my least favourite gigs was a festival. There weren't many people there and they were all talking.

When I'm not on tour, my band have to do pantomime. I want to do big gigs to earn them money.

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

I've always felt that if people just came to one of my gigs, all would be revealed.

I love comedy and I did a few gigs here and there but it never really took off. It was too scary.

I don't really do any corporate gigs or I don't really cash in which is a bit silly and much to the annoyance of my family. I'd rather just do gigs that I like and TV shows that I like rather than personal appearances at a nightclub.

I missed a lot of family weddings and funerals because we were out on the road and had these big gigs, and you can't pull out of these gigs at the last minute because too many people are counting on it. It got to the point where I was consumed with that.

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.

People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I'm sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared.

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Playing gigs is what it's about for me.

I won't do routines at gigs that I've done on television.

You have to do all kinds of things like voice-overs, corporate gigs, and edit videos to support yourself.

No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs.

There's a lot of downtime when we're not on stage leading up to the gigs.

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

I've never relied on one job and usually have a few different gigs going.

I landed gigs touring with The Jonas Brothers and Britney Spears!

When I first started traveling for gigs, I knew I wanted to create some online content.

I'm a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I'll leave it to the professionals.

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

Gigs are my favourite thing - even the not so good ones, because you always learn something.

My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.

We're not just three guys in a rap act. We want all sorts of people at our gigs.

That was how I started, as a hypnotist. But I didn't like the kind of gigs I was being offered. I didn't want to embarrass people.

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.

One of the things that happened is I did a lot of shitty gigs. When you do a bunch of shitty bar gigs you have to get used to people yelling at you, you're used to thinking on the fly, to dealing with weird situations.

Don't edit yourself too much. Don't be afraid of looking stupid, 'cool' is so rarely funny I think. And just do it! Do as many gigs as you possibly can, and watch as many gigs as you possibly can. You'll get the rhythm of it in your head and make lovely friends.

What do you know when you're 19? I was just stomping around doing gigs.

I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!

In the end when we're on stage, we push buttons, but when we're in the studio we're actually creating music that we play in gigs.

I love to play gigs.

I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.

I've had some bad gigs, don't get me wrong.

The cool thing about the smaller gigs - it's the intimacy. You really feel connected to the crowd.

All gigs are good gigs. There's never a bad one. Everything have a reason behind it; you just got to find that reason.

I'm just thankful for gigs.

I previously played King Tut's in Glasgow, which is one of my favourite gigs. It's really intimate.

Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.