“ For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way. ”
- Chris Bailey- Copy
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“ I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile. ”
- Buddy Guy- Copy
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“ Sometimes you can practice something but what you wind up playing when you're out doing a gig is not what you practiced. What you learn is not necessarily what you practice. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
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“ If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig. ”
- Tom Hanks- Copy
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“ My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager. ”
- Toby Keith- Copy
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“ Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won! ”
- Cheech Marin- Copy
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“ The truly incredible thing is we're realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time. ”
- Stevie Nicks- Copy
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“ Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man. ”
- Wes Montgomery- Copy
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“ There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us… ”
- Stuart Stevens- Copy
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“ I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain. ”
- Ben Folds- Copy
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“ We started playing our first gigs right about the time Kurt Cobain died, and we were playing punk clubs. That's why we were relevant. It was basically acoustic piano with a grunge rhythm section… If we'd sucked, we'd have been relegated to high-art, indie music that would've been well-reviewed… ”
- Ben Folds- Copy
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“ People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us. ”
- Robert Forster- Copy
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“ Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it. ”
- Tony Iommi- Copy
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