American Idol Judge Quotes

#1. Who wouldn't want to be an 'American Idol' judge? It's an awesome, awesome show.

Jane Krakowski

#2. Hallucidation: When you think you see something that is there.

Robert Podgurski

#3. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

Steve Jobs

#4. If you won't leave me, I'll find someone who will.

Warren Zevon

#5. You don't have anything to lose by standing up for yourself,' Nando said. 'But you can lose yourself by trying to please everyone.

Sydney Salter

#6. Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Malcolm Gladwell

#7. Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.

Jeff Lindsay

#8. Merely knowing that you are not the only resister makes it substantially easier to reject the crowd.

Adam M. Grant

#9. Asking why had somehow led me to the thing that I loved - the feeling of moving over the earth, with the earth, the sensation of being in the present, free from chores and expectations and disappointment and worry.

Scott Jurek

#10. 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.

Neil Patrick Harris

#11. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.

Lord Byron

#12. Maturity means learning the value of that which is hard-earned.

Philip Toshio Sudo