Idols Quotes - Page 7

• The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Doe, Rock N Roll

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• On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills.

  Rob Sheffield

  Jobs, Zero, Skills

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• '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.

  Rob Sheffield

  Mom, Voice, Long

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• With all due respect to Mick Jagger, who is one of my idols, I think it's a mistake to leap around and sing at 53. When I started, there weren't any women I looked up to. It was Mick. I never saw anybody go on a stage and have that tongue-in-cheek attitude. It was all straight, including the Beatles. I love his attitude, hands on hips and lips out.

  Grace Slick

  Attitude, Mistake, Thinking

  Interview with Mary Campbell, articles.latimes.com. January 01, 1993.

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• Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book.

  Jordin Sparks

  Book, Choices, Open Book

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• When I was on 'Idol' and 17, everything was so new. Everyone is so nice and wants to see you succeed.

  Jordin Sparks

  Nice, Want, Succeed

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• I look up to my brother - he inspires me so much. He has always been my best friend. He knows everything. I left the house at 16 when I auditioned for 'American Idol' and he was 14. It was one of those things that was so sudden and neither of us expected it. He has been so supportive of me even though I know that every time I leave, it hurts him.

  Jordin Sparks

  Friendship, Hurt, Brother

  "Jordin Sparks Shares Her Secrets!". The Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I'm excited about the new judges on 'American Idol.' Jennifer Lopez was a real mentor to me my season and I admire her so much. And I kind of have a crush on Steven Tyler. It's going to be interesting to see is one person going to stand out among the judges or if everyone will sort of be equal.

  Jordin Sparks

  Crush, Real, Interesting

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• The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.

  John Shelby Spong

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Successful, Rejects You, Names

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• Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Men, Generations

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.242, Xist Publishing

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• I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

  Billy Idol

  Long, Care, Reason

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Girl, Dream, Mind

  "Roberto Cavalli's Photo Album" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 24, 2008.

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• Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Acquiescence, Foe, Printed

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• . . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

  Plato

  Art, Men, Mind

  Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.2181, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!

  Hakim Bey

  Light, Shows, Turns

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.146, Autonomedia

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• So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Kings, Spring

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• Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Smell, Mad, Monsters

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.105, Penguin

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• Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Profession

  Newspaper article, 15 Feb. 1925, in Paula McSpadden Grove The Will Rogers Book (1961) p. 193

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• Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.

  Bob Dylan

  Fall, Fire, Rewards

  Song: Changing of The Guards, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Book

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago”, p.15, editionNEXT.com

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• You sounded like Dolly parton on helium." (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)

  Simon Cowell

  Country, Eight, Week

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• Let us say "Yes" to life and not death. Let us say "Yes" to freedom and not enslavement to the many idols of our time. In a word, let us say "Yes" to the God who is love, life and freedom, and who never disappoints.

  Pope Francis

  Inspirational, Love Life, Pro Life

  Pope Francis (2017). “Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Material Existence and the Meaning of Life”, p.41, Pan Macmillan

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• Last year was the fourth or fifth attempt to get fall launched till 'American Idol' comes in January. To be honest, the reality programming we had on last year was considered filler until we could get to the good stuff. It was meant to hopefully get us to January andor to November. To get past baseball. But (it) didn't work very well.

  Mike Darnell

  Baseball, Fall, Reality

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• The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.

  John Ortberg

  Crazy, Soul, Mind

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