Quotes About Idol

Being on 'Idol' was an amazing experience. We had a lot of pressure to do each show, but they really helped shape me as an artist and get to where I am. It was pretty awesome.

My mom bought me a guitar when I was 12 and I used to pretend that I was a rock star in my own room. I was also obsessed with Elvis as a kid.

I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

I have always been inspired by Hrithik, and he's the very reason I got into the entertainment industry. I am an avid dancer, and Hrithik is a demigod when it comes to dance.

I like Daniel Alves, I have him as my inspiration.

I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up.

I would have loved to meet David Bowie.

I really like Robert De Niro.

In my career, Diego Maradona had the biggest influence on me.

Mick Jagger has been an idol of mine since I was 10 years old. Through his music, he has taught me so much about rock n' roll, but also about the blues and about the experience of live music, going to several Rolling Stones shows, growing up.

My idol when I was a kid was Elizabeth Taylor.

I confess I'm a big fan of Taylor Swift.

I'm a Taylor Swift fan, definitely.

I picked up the guitar at 15 because of Taylor Swift.

I'd love to have tea and scones with the Queen; she's my idol.

My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.

Those who thus seek to screen an idol from criticism only betray their own suspicions about the worthiness of the totem they worship.

He's always been something like a star to me

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness.

I dont understand why my fans cry when they see me. Do I make you sad? No, right? So smile, I like that!

God, originally a symbol for the highest value that we can experience within us, becomes, in the having mode, an idol. In the prophetic concept, an idol is a thing that we ourselves make and project our own powers into, thus impoverishing ourselves. We then submit to our creation and by our submission are in touch with ourselves in an alienated form. While I can have the idol because it is a thing, by my submission to it, it, simultaneously, has me.

Man transfers his own passions and qualities to the idol. The more he impoverishes himself, the greater and stronger becomes the idol.