Nigel Lythgoe Quotes

That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television. - Nigel Lythgoe

Some very, very interesting things happen. - Nigel Lythgoe

Pop music was invented in America, but the way the radio stations have gone for one type of music these days, it's so disparate now, it's very difficult for kids to get an overall feel of American music. - Nigel Lythgoe

Once they are in the top 24, they are here [in Hollywood] to stay. - Nigel Lythgoe

I've never heard kids blame other kids on stage to their faces before, and that has occurred this season. I have never heard people quit on stage in front of everybody and give the judges a mouthful, and say 'I'm quitting the show because of what you have said or what you have done,' and that has occurred... I have never seen people willing to s*** on other people as much as this crowd. - Nigel Lythgoe

If we wanted to, say, clear a song by the Eagles, we would have to ask the publisher, the person who holds the rights, the songwriter and each one of the Eagles. And if one of them says no, we can't sing the song. - Nigel Lythgoe

I think there's a lot of church-going [in the South] where they literally learn their craft and they're singing there every single week and [perfecting] the performance that goes with that. And I think there's a lot of soul there. In truth, though, we're just shocked by it to a certain degree. - Nigel Lythgoe

I take everything like that with a pinch of salt. I've been in the business too long. I truly don't know. I know Prince had a party last night (after the Golden Globes) and I believe Paula might have been there. - Nigel Lythgoe

I need boy dancers to be strong, masculine! - Nigel Lythgoe

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