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.
SIMON COWELLI 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.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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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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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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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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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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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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You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
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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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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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If 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.
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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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I’m a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you’re OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.
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