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.
SIMON COWELLIf I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I’m pleasant, but the parts when I’m obnoxious.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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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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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Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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Have I got a black book? Yes, it’s called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people if you want to go on dates – working in TV, living in L.A., it is there if you want it.
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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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I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
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It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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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 still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?
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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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I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
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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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