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 COWELLI 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.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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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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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Anything I shouldn’t laugh at makes me laugh. I mean, I’m bad at that, when somebody is singing something terribly and I’m thinking to myself, ‘If I laugh now, this is the absolute worst thing I could ever do,’ and then I start laughing and I can’t stop.
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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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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.
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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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Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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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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I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.
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You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?
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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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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’m obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.
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