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 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.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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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It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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There’s one argument that says we shouldn’t be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you’ve got to take it case by case.
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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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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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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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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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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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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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Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
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Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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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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Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time…. I was born to be a dad.
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