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 COWELLThe only magazines I read are car magazines.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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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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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 have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
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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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You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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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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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?
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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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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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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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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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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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