I actually don’t understand a word Paula’s saying anymore. It’s like a new language.
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 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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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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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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Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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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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I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
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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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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’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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I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.
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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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You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
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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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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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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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