Music Gig Quotes

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

I love to play gigs.

I've always felt that if people just came to one of my gigs, all would be revealed.

I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.

My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.

We're a band. We're hired for parties. We have to know what to do.

I played with Prince in 2010... the America tour. The one with Misty Copeland dancing on top of the piano! But Prince played the piano on that song. But I played two dates with him on that tour. When we played the gig, every couple of songs, Prince would change his clothes.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.

My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

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

We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.

It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.

I've played the Opry before.

It was blazing sunshine and I went on in a turquoise neck muff, glamorous dress and muddy boots and just had the best gig, really emotional. I've had emails from people saying that they cried. They promised it wasn't the drugs.

I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night.

To perform live would be amazing; that's a huge thing to undertake.

I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and played with us.

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion. After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience. We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn't exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.

Earlier I had been in New York, which was my first time to New York, and I got booked in the Baby Grand up in Harlem there. I was booked there for a week; they kept me there for about a month. That's where Doc Pomus and myself became very close friends and start running together around town and what not.

We got to open for Soundgarden, which was pretty cool.

The last reunion was a bit of a rushed job, we had to do a gig and documentary.