Music Talent Show Quotes

'American Idol' is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element - folks-next-door battling it out in a contest. But instead of fighting leeches, bugs, parasites and each other, as on CBS's 'Survivor' and other shows that imitate it, the 'American Idol' contestants, of course, sing.

You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.

I don't have anything against Simon Cowell and 'The X Factor.'

American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.

People had told me to try 'The X Factor' for years, but I thought I'd be moody and hate it all. But it's what I needed. I asked Mum and Dad to come to my 'X Factor' audition, and it was the first time that they'd been in the same room in years.

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.

I've been watching 'American Idol' since I was five years old.

It's always been a dream to audition for 'American Idol.' But you have to be 15 or older.

On 'Best Week Ever,' I met a few previous 'Idol' winners, and they were the nicest young people you'd ever want to meet. It is a tribute to them that they emerged from 'Idol's' cynicism factory seemingly without mercury poisoning of the soul.

Having watched 'X Factor' over the years, they just haven't got it right. The male winners haven't been believable. They look like puppets; they sound like puppets.

I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'

The rest of my family are obsessed by 'The X Factor:' I'm intrigued by it, although its musical values are far away from mine, like a cup of tea with 400 lumps of sugar in it. There's something very strange about Simon Cowell's lips, isn't there?

I didn't even know what 'The Voice' was, but my mom said, 'I signed you up for this singing show,' and I was like, 'All right, I guess.'

The 'Voice Kids U.K.' was great, but it wasn't a big show like 'AGT.'

I'm also a big 'American Idol' fan. I think it's just great fun.

'The X Factor' saved me.

So many months in the 'X Factor' house and sharing my room with five other girls was tough.

I hate 'The Voice.' I think everyone thought 'The Voice U.K.' would be like the U.S. version, and it's not.