I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.
Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.
I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.
. . . I'm not conscious of the speed. . . it's not my motive. . . my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard. . . it can get to the point where I don't have control over what I am playing. . . I never end the gig until I can't sing anymore
It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.
Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.
I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money.
The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.
The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry.
At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L. A. He was an electric violinist.
I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.
It's just about bein' yourself. . . even when you're on the dole, it's about your leather jacket. Music is the last refuge of the working class, along with football. . . in fact, gigs and riots are the only things left.
Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.
The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.
I wrote for Roseanne. I wrote her stand-up act with her. I wrote with Tom Arnold. There was a period when I was working with them pretty steadily. But I would take brief gigs here and there.
I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.
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.
I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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.