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.
SIMON COWELLI break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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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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You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
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I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
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Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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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 love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there’s something about, I don’t know there’s something very special when you’ve signed an artist and that first record comes in and it’s a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.
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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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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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Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought, what am I doing this for? I don’t ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.’
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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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What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.
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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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