Talent Show Quotes

• I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Television
  • Monkey
  • Marches

• I understand why people do reality TV talent shows, I just don't think it's good for music. It's karaoke. What three people on a panel perceive as being great vocally, I think, isn't necessarily right.

  

  Susan Ann Sulley The Human League
  • Understand
  • Talent Show
  • Vocally

• I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.

  

  Susan Ann Sulley The Human League
  • Music
  • Famous
  • Talent Show

• I’m going out to let my real talent show, not to just stand there and dance around. Personally, I’d never lip-synch. It’s just not me.

  

  Ashlee Simpson
  • Real
  • Dance
  • Lip-Synch

• In my senior year of high school, I was doing a dance with a bunch of friends for the talent show, and my pants split entirely in half. It was incredible.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Dance
  • High School
  • Talent Show