Quotes About Performance

The thing is that business and success, and how hard it is, doesn't look any different whether you're playing a gig at eleven o'clock at night or you're going to work at nine in the morning at a law firm.

I've got the best gig in the world.

I always get nervous before a gig, so I look over my writing, trying not to fantasise about all the things that could go horribly wrong.

When you're on tour. there's a contract between you and the audience: do what you want, as long as you do what we want. You're having to play with the past at every gig.

AC/DC is a tough gig for everyone in the band.

I had gigged so much from the age of 11 to 20 that I got to a stage where I actually got less nervous the bigger the gig. But you need those butterflies: they make you feel alive.

I don't say that I have a job. I have a gig, or a piece, or a film, or a show, but it's never a job.

I got £30 for my first gig, cash in hand.

And you can't have an Allman Brothers gig without an Allman brother. I've heard people try to argue that you can, but I'm not buying it.

When I make eye contact with our fans while playing a gig, I seem to have the most energy.

There are a million reasons why I might not do well at a gig. But none of them are because I'm a woman.

I think it's important to go out and gig all over the country, it makes you a better comic.

As a teenager, I used to carry the equipment for Gary's band, so I was kind of like his roadie. Every night after a gig, I'd go to bed dreaming of being in the band myself.

Well, I can't sing like James Brown and stuff and go do a gig. I'm not a roughhouse singer.

For us every gig is a responsibility. We don't want people seeing us then saying, 'They're not as good as The Proclaimers.'

A good comedian can make serious political points while also having a giggle.

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 enjoy doing my gigs and I keep my hand in by putting records out now and again. You can't really get over the buzz of playing live though.

Actually, I've been doing stand-up on the quiet for the last 15 years, in the form of corporate gigs.

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

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.

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.

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