Headliner Quotes

#1. One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.

Paul Kantner

#2. Over the years, I managed to develop this comedy career, went from opening act to headliner at comedy clubs, to playing concert halls, and had an off-Broadway show with 'Sleepwalk With Me.'

Mike Birbiglia

#3. I've been hot, I've been lukewarm, I've been freezing, but I've always been a headliner.

Don Rickles

#4. I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion.

Bill Nye

#5. I could take my time, and nobody was pressuring me to be a headliner. I could go up there, find my voice, and figure out what I wanted to do.

Dane Cook

#6. Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.

Barbara Mandrell

#7. You know, I'm playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room ... About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main headliner on the Vegas Strip, so that's a big deal for me. Getting to do my stand-up the way I have this summer is really what I've dreamed of since I was about 10 years old.

Billy Gardell

#8. Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Giambattista Vico

#9. I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music ... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.

Demetri Martin

#10. The strength of a woman is the love she carries in her heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. When you're the opener, you're the guy getting the crowd warmed up. But when you're the headliner, you're the main dude. People come to see you, and you have to deliver. It's a cool position to be in.

Scotty McCreery

#12. Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"
I say, goodnight.
The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.

Berti Vogts

#14. The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.

Clive Davis

#15. Empathy is a creative act. It is the act of imagining ourselves not only in another's shoes, but perhaps inhabiting their very heart and soul.

Michele Jennae

#16. In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.

Elbert Hubbard

#17. Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!

Peter Asher

#18. Willie Nelson is not just a star or a headliner, he's a legend.

Lee Brice

#19. If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

Mick Jagger

#20. There's no way to get around it; online dating is work. And some people are more skilled at this kind of communication than others.

Rachel Martin