#contest

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be. ↗

— Tab Hunter

#best #care #contest #dislike #earth

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#arse #contest #kicking #man #useful

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest. ↗

— William Devane

#emmys #popularity #popularity contest #ultimately

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money. ↗

— Ree Drummond

#contest #i #money #ninety-five #percent

Art has never been a popularity contest. ↗

— James Levine

#been #contest #never #popularity #popularity contest

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#being #conquerors #contests #english-speaking #field

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains. ↗

— John Moody

#big government #company #contest #country #entire

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#desperate #electoral #grown #happen #happening

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest! ↗

— Chris Rock

#american idol #christopher #christopher reeve #contest #dance