Pete Waterman Quotes

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.

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

Everything I touch turns to gold.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The public are not stupid.

Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.

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

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

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