Pete Waterman Quotes

#1. Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

Pete Waterman

#2. There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.

Wynton Marsalis

#3. Everything I touch turns to gold.

Pete Waterman

#4. You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...

Neal Stephenson

#5. Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

Pete Waterman

#6. Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.

Nora Roberts

#7. If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.

Pete Waterman

#8. I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.

Pete Waterman

#9. I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

Pete Waterman

#10. Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

Edie Falco

#11. I think Robbie Williams is an utter and complete prat. His last record was a pile of rubbish.

Pete Waterman

#12. You mean if a good hunter did this it was on purpose?

Louise Penny

#13. The public are not stupid.

Pete Waterman

#14. In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others

Jung

#15. Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.

Pete Waterman

#16. Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.

Pete Waterman

#17. Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

Pete Waterman

#18. There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

Pete Waterman

#19. I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.

Pete Waterman

#20. It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.

Pete Waterman

#21. I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.

Pete Waterman

#22. I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.

Pete Waterman

#23. The public are always right ... but I think they've got it wrong tonight

Pete Waterman

#24. I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

Pete Waterman