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Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book.
The Human heart is an idol factory.
How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for?
Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential
To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.
The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.
Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?
We're entertainers, not just singers!
Our hearts are raging idol factories.
I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.
for Pop, who sees the stars
and Jude, who hears their music
I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.
The only 'Idol' music I've ever purchased is Phillip Phillips.
But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.
Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.
There will never be another 'American Idol,' which produced so many credible superstars over the years. It was a phenomenon in pop culture. It changed music.
When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them.
Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.
I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
An idol has such a controlling position in your heart that you can spend most of your passion and energy, your emotional and financial resources, on it without a second thought. . . .
An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.
We live most days and most of the hours of those days in a world permeated with the making and purchasing of idols.
Every week, as an 11-year-old kid, I would tune in to what was really the first American Idol-type program, a radio show called 'Major Bowes' Amateur Hour.' The winning group on the evening of September 8, 1935, was called the Hoboken Four, and their spokesman was Frank Sinatra, then aged 19.
'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.
What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, q a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes r speechless idols!
I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
'American Idol' is the fast track to fame. I'm just lucky it worked out. I don't feel different. The way people react to me is different.
As a singer and songwriter, I have great admiration for many of the budding stars who come to try their hand at performing and can relate to the hopes and aspirations of all the contestants, no matter how good or bad.
I've never believed that 'Idol' as a franchise is beholden to any individual because everybody said it would die the minute Simon Cowell left, and it hasn't.
I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.
Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.
Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.
God bless pop music and God bless MTV.
Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.
Frankly, if 'American Idol' was the way I'd have to audition as a singer, I'd be standing behind the counter in a 5&10 right now. I couldn't have done it that way.
American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.
Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion.
I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.
There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.
People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.
'American Idol' was just really a platform. What you do after that is what separates you from the show. And I've been working really hard, touring constantly, and building those fans. You've got to work hard.
My idols were Michael Jackson and The Beatles and I would watch Justin Timberlake and John Mayer perform and I knew I wanted to do what they were doing!
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to acommodate all these singing shows.
It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
The human heart is a factory of idols ... Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.
Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious.
Sometimes things can be a guilty pleasure, but with 'Idol,' everyone talks about it like it's a real thing; they argue over who's gonna win ... There's no laughing at it.
Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.
I've been watching 'American Idol' since its debut season in 2002. Back then, America hadn't yet evolved into a gladiatorial cybernation of bloggers, tweeters, and self-ordained voice coaches.
I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.
I don't care about awards and public image. We know the business of entertainment. We worship our work, we worship our clients and we worship profitability.
It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.
Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.
You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration
'American Idol' is a juggernaut ... Because of my 'American Idol' win, I am able to do the thing that I love most, which is to be an entertainer.
It's great to get to work with your idols.
American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.
American Idol rocks! It's on now and this episode is amazing!
So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.
I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.
You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.
Music reality shows provide a platform to people who have talent and gives them visibility and exposure. It is a win-win situation for participants.
Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.
What is a false idol? What you think love will get you.
I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.
It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.
Singing shows are fun. Every viewer has their own opinion. We all know whether we think a voice sounds good or not. There's a play-along element. All these shows can be supported.
If [American Idol] was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race.
When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.
Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience that was once achieved through religion.
The original reality show.
'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.
American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.
You're still my idol.
People who win awards for drama and for crying their eyes out for two hours ... it's easy!
If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.
I don't do celebrity.
People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.
When I was on 'Idol' and 17, everything was so new. Everyone is so nice and wants to see you succeed.
Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star.
I'm not a star, I hate that word, and I'm an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I'm an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.
'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.
Instead of anointing versus excellence, let's pursue excellent singing that is anointed.
WE MUST BEGIN TO REMOVE IDOLS BY CHOOSING TO RECOGNIZE THEIR EXISTENCE AND ADMITTING THEIR INABILITY TO KEEP US SATISFIED.
I don't want to do what my idols did ... I want to do more than they did. And I feel like I'm on my way.
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
I still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.
Men are idol factories.
I went into the 'Idol' audition with no expectations; that's just the kind of person I am. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't hurt so badly, you know? But once I made it past the first round, and the second, and third - I started to realize, 'Maybe my goals and dreams really are attainable.'
Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.