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In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying 'Come to our gigs'.

I definitely had some moments, where, "Wow, these were some hard chords" on some gig.

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

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

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.

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

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

I love that - you get everything from seven-year-olds to 87-year-olds at Passenger gigs.

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

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

Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.

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

A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.

I used to do covers gigs that would be 90 minutes, with a 30 minute break, then another 90.

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

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

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

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

I went around driving myself to gigs everywhere, and eventually, people just kept coming back.

We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB.

When people come to my gigs, they feel accepted as they are and they feel part of this family.

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

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

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

I did a gig in the U.S. once for the homeless. I said 'It's nice to see so many bums on seats.'

What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.

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

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

[Charles McPherson] was kind enough to go to a record gig of mine where we recorded a song of his.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

I just feel so upset when I think of all the lost years when I could have been doing stand-up gigs.

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

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

Luce blushed. "Then what kind of angel are you?" "I'm sort of in between gigs right now," Daniel said.

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

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

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

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

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

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

TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

They have barricades at our gigs - to keep people in. We do most of the songs from 'Scrubs' over 55 minutes.

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