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My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.

Simon Cowell

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.
SIMON COWELL

Air Country Hours People Tape
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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Alternatives Country People Rocks Snow
I’ve always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn’t like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.
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Boss Salary Wanted
Most things in music go full circle eventually.
SIMON COWELL

Circles Full Circle
I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
SIMON COWELL

Levels School Three
I actually don’t understand a word Paula’s saying anymore. It’s like a new language.
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Country Hilarious Language People
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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Artist Country People Song Understand Years
At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
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Cocky Thinking World
I don’t want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that’s what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.
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Country Firsts People Wants Years
I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
SIMON COWELL

Hated Lecturing People
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.
SIMON COWELL

Better Feel Mind Play
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.
SIMON COWELL

Artist Feelings Shows
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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Arguing People Records
Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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Country Dresses Female People
It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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Feelings Hurt Opinion
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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Achievement Artist Made

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.

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