Simon Cowell Quotes

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Simon Cowell

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : October 7, 1959

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

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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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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 was 12 years old when I first realized that food could be hot. That's why I turned out the way I am.

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I hated school, but I love work.

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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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You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.

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The only magazines I read are car magazines.

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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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Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

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I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show.

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I can't admit things; that's why I can't go to funerals and stuff like that. I find it very, very difficult to deal with that kind of reality. I shut myself off totally because it affects me so badly.

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There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time.

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Have I got a black book? Yes, it's called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people if you want to go on dates - working in TV, living in L.A., it is there if you want it.

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Most things in music go full circle eventually.

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I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

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Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.

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When you're making a reality show, you can't even plan a week ahead now.

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I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

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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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