It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
SIMON COWELLYou sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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 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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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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I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.
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Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.
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Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That’s harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who’ve got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.
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I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern… I’m pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.
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I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.
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The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.
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It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.
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I still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
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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 actually don’t understand a word Paula’s saying anymore. It’s like a new language.
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I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don’t have time for them. I can’t make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.
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The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
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The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
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I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
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Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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There’s no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we’re happy; end of story.
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I’ve always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn’t like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.
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