You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
SIMON COWELLIt’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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I love producing shows. And so when you’re on a show where other people are making decisions you don’t necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don’t know what that audience are into and I don’t particularly like that kind of music.
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I don’t mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I’m used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.
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Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don’t want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical.
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It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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You sounded like Dolly parton on helium.” (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'”Eight Days A Week.)
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I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.
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My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
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I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
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Anything I shouldn’t laugh at makes me laugh. I mean, I’m bad at that, when somebody is singing something terribly and I’m thinking to myself, ‘If I laugh now, this is the absolute worst thing I could ever do,’ and then I start laughing and I can’t stop.
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There’s one argument that says we shouldn’t be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you’ve got to take it case by case.
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Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.
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I’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand…
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I’ve learned to deal with stress much better now, things don’t bother me in the way that they once used to.
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