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 COWELLShave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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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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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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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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Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
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There’s no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we’re happy; end of story.
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I think if you’re an unhappy person, you’re always going to be an unhappy person. You’re probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I’m being honest.
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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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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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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’ve spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.
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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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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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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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