Top 34 Open Mic Quotes
#2. Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, 'This is where I wanna be.'
Patton Oswalt
#3. To move on, you must surrender to your pain and accept it as your own. Only then will you heal inside.
L.J. Vanier
#4. The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.
Oliver Goldsmith
#5. I had been given a wonderful opportunity to be a novelist - a chance you just don't get every day.
Haruki Murakami
#6. My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?
Doug Stanhope
#7. I would. I'm just too, I'm kind of, a pussy, I guess. That's the problem. But, no, I'd love to. I think everybody should do open mics. I think it's very healthy for your soul. So yeah, I'd love to do it again, but I don't know. It's like I'm cutting a record if I do open mic now, so, I don't know.
Robert Pattinson
#8. I care what people who know me think of me.
Jenna Bush
#9. I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, 'You should give it a go in London.'
James Bay
#10. The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over.
Katy B
#11. Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.
Langhorne Slim
#12. I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about it now, and I think, 'Well, that may be inappropriate,' but it was great!'
Margaret Cho
#13. My first open mic was fantastic. I crushed. And my second mic was as bad as my first one was good.
Dana Gould
#14. I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.
Aziz Ansari
#15. My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.
Dick Cavett
#16. When I was in college, I would go out, and I would go to these open mic nights at Stitches and Nick's Comedy Stop, so I was going to classes during the day, and then at night, I would be signing up on the lists.
Greg Fitzsimmons
#17. You are my life now. this"_he waved a hand dismissively around him at the club-"the fey, everything, it all falls into place once you accept me"
-kennan
Melissa Marr
#18. Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
Ike Barinholtz
#19. In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.
Tyler Hilton
#20. I would show up at any venue that had an open mic.
Ludacris
#21. I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.
Leon Bridges
#22. There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.
Johnny Depp
#23. When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd ... was just amazing.
Birdy
#24. My generation were all careerists.
Zaha Hadid
#25. Yet the world of 2014 is already a world in which culture is releasing itself from the shackles of biology. Our
Yuval Noah Harari
#26. Change forced by others is difficult to accept. And too rapid a change causes instability.
Amish Tripathi
#27. THAT NIGHT, AT ONE OF LONDON'S OPEN-MIC SESSIONS, A YOUNG comedian enjoyed his first success, telling the tale of the naked Yank who mugged him for a tuxedo.
Anthony Chapman
#28. This is a big fucking deal!" --Joe Biden, caught on an open mic congratulating President Barack Obama during the health care signing ceremony, Washington, D.C., March 23, 2010
Joe Biden
#29. My dad played in different clubs and open mic nights. But he mostly walked dogs. A lot of dogs.
Rachel Trachtenburg
#30. Bullying new comics at open mic nights? NOT ON MY WATCH!
Papa CJ
#31. The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him.
Frederik Pohl
#32. How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
Charles Lindbergh
#33. I advise wannabe singers to form a band, practise in your garage if you have to, but do as many charity or open mic shows as possible to get experience. I sang for seven years before getting a record deal, and I was already loving what I was doing. I just got lucky and got discovered.
Bonnie Tyler
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