Pete Waterman Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

To do what you've done makes you a real man - commenting on the farcical admittance by a contestant he was over the age limit

I never even knew he was a socialist. Not in 15 years. I couldn't believe it when I found out.

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

Everything I touch turns to gold.

The public are not stupid.

Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.