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 COWELLIt’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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’ve had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year – who cares?
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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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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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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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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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It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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I didn’t realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?
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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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The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
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It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
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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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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 like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.
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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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