70 Quotes About Gigs

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

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

Donald Rumsfeld also lost his gig last week. When asked what his future plans are, Rumsfeld said, 'What's a plan?'

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

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.

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

Nothing is worse than going home and having not played a gig.

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

What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.