Lord Buckley
Comedian, Performer
"Your wig steers the gig."
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Gigs
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Henry Rollins
Musician, Writer, Actor
"I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing."
Nigel Kennedy
Violinist
"I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever."
Paul McCartney
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"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."
Ben Schwartz
Actor
"The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry."
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"Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at."
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"You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs."
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"My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult."
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"People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself."
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"If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things."
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"It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally."
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"You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice."
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"Obviously I still gig on my own, but I've always heard my music with a band."
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"T.V.s weird because its both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process."
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"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."
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"I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything."
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"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."
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"I had known Hal [Needham] for a while by the time he moved in, so I was sure we'd get along well, and we did. He'd go off and do his gigs and I would do mine, and when we were lucky we got to work on the same ones."
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"I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig."
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"... I'm not conscious of the speed ... it's not my motive ... my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard ... it can get to the point where I don't have control over what I am playing ... I never end the gig until I can't sing anymore"
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"It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it."
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"Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile."
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"I want to have a good time myself. I don't want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that?"
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"I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal."
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"My friends are the ones I've had since primary school. They're really cool and such a good bunch of people. They came to every one of my gigs before all of this happened, you know; they were there in the smoky pubs, wherever."
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