I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.
There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.
I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.
I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.
Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancybrig, And a bos'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig!
For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs.
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started. . . I was fine.
I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.
I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.
It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing.
I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.
[Charles McPherson] was kind enough to go to a record gig of mine where we recorded a song of his.
If somebody loses a gig because they publicly show up at [Donald] Trump's inauguration, I guarantee you somebody else is going to hire them and pay them more than they were making whenever they got fired.
You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.
Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London.
One of the greatest pleasures of working on shows is that I enjoy watching the actors - who are all younger than me now - and their careers. I love seeing how they're doing and seeing them getting good gigs and doing well.
I want to have a good time myself. I don't want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that?
People get good gigs because they stand up. . . . You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.