Booking Agent Quotes & Sayings

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking. — Mary Lou Williams

The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece. — Gregg Allman

Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our message to the world. — Dan Bejar

European fascism changed comedy in America. Jack Benny explained, 'During World War II, attitudes changed. Hitler's ideology of Aryan supremacy put all ethnic humor in a bad light. When the black man's fight for equal rights and fair play became an issue after the War, I would no longer allow Rochester to say or do anything that an audience would consider degrading.' Benny's attitude toward race relations was enlightened. Starting in 1940 he refused to play any segregated venue. In the 1960s when his agent scheduled a world tour, Benny chastised him for booking a gig in apartheid South Africa and refused to appear. — Kliph Nesteroff

We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did our manager and booking agent at the time, that we have really exhausted it, and we can't make money at this anymore. — Steve Brown

I studied voiceover, and I studied acting and I got my first series and my first agent a week out of high school. And it took me about five years of hit-or-miss auditioning and booking on occasion before I could support myself totally as an actor. — Bob Bergen