Quotes About Opening act

Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

I opened up for Richard Pryor in 1992. I had a conversation with him. All those other comedians can say what they want about what they did, but I opened up for the man. Paul Mooney and I are probably the only ones that can say that.

I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.

You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

As an artist, I feel you can have a debut just once.

Every debut is good, I would like to say. You can't necessarily have a bad debut, no matter how you play, results, whatever.

If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.

There's a first time for everything when I'm involved.

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.

I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act.

I think you only make your debut album once, and you only get that one chance to make a first impression.

It's tough going out as the opening act of a band especially when you're solo.

A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.

Product 1' was really my introduction into the game.

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

Before 'SNL,' I would do stand-up, opening for Jeff Tweedy. It was worse than bombing in that people were dead silent.

We've always been kind of an underground band in a way that had the respect of our peers on the road. I like to say we're the world's most famous opening act because we've opened for every huge band on the planet.

Come le funi che aprono il sipario di un teatro, ogni tuo sorriso è un debutto. Una prima. Tu che sveli te stesso.

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

Diana Ross saw me on Merv Griffin and hired me to be her opening act.

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.

I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.

Ive been an opening act for pretty much as long as Ive been out here doing this, so to be able to go out and be a headliner is an adjustment for me.

I worked with so many comedians who became big names - so many, I can't even remember some of their names. John Byner, Totie Fields, Joan Rivers. Shecky Green at the MGM. When I started my career, my first hotel in Las Vegas was at the old Flamingo. My opening act was Bill Cosby.