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.
SIMON COWELLThey 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.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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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I’ve learned to deal with stress much better now, things don’t bother me in the way that they once used to.
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Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought, what am I doing this for? I don’t ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.’
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At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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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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You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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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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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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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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I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
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The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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