Top 74 Quotes & Sayings by Louis Walsh

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Michael Louis Vincent Walsh is an Irish music manager and television personality. He has managed Johnny Logan, Boyzone, Jedward and Westlife, four of Ireland's most successful pop acts in the 1990s and 2000s. He later became a talent judge on television shows such as Popstars (2001–2002), You're a Star (2003–2004), The X Factor, and Ireland's Got Talent (2018–2019).

Irish - Celebrity | Born: August 5, 1952

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Everybody says they were 'born to sing' but you can suss the good from the bad. You can tell who's in it for the music.

Louis Walsh

I like insult comics. Joan Rivers, Dame Edna, people like that.

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I grew up in a small village in the west of Ireland.

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A lot of people who want to be serious artists probably don't want to go for a talent show, but it is a great launching pad.

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I don't want to be a celebrity. I never, ever did.

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A Westlife reunion is definitely going to happen - but I have no idea when.

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J.Lo cannot sing, but she's still selling out Vegas.

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Westlife never got the credit they deserved.

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The 'X Factor' is the biggest show on TV and the other shows are just copying us with their silly chairs. Simon Cowell is the king of TV and if he's not involved then it's not good.

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I hate 'The Voice.' I think everyone thought 'The Voice U.K.' would be like the U.S. version, and it's not.

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Hometown are different to anything I've heard. They have an incredible blend in their vocal styles. They are going to be huge.

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The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm a chancer and they think I'm lucky! They don't realise that I have actually earned it, because I have worked with so many bands. That's all I've ever done is work in music.

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I don't know if I'll quit Ireland. I like living here because I like the people here, but you never know what's going to happen.

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I'm loving 'X Factor,' I'm having the most fun. I love the idea and I love the celebrities.

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What's that man's real name anyway? It's not will.i.am, is it? He thinks he's got all the answers, but if he didn't have Fergie in the band, where would he be? Fergie is the real star. I would love her on 'The X Factor,' and to be a judge on the show.

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You get x amount of years at the top... boybands are like buses - there's always another one coming along.

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I'm not a good dancer.

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I can't swim.

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I just love music. I am very good at music.

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I don't care about making a fool of myself at all.

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You can always spot the professionals. Taylor Swift, she knows what she's doing.

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Everybody has auditioned and failed. You learn from that. It's how you learn your craft.

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I love Hozier.

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I buy a lot of art. I buy Andy Warhols.

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I do love great pop music, The Hollies had brilliant pop records.

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I don't want to hang around in a wheelchair in a nursing home. I don't. I don't want to be like that.

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It's hard work if you want a proper and a lasting career.

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I never wanted to be on TV.

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There's nobody knows more about dancing and choreography than Arlene Phillips, ever.

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Music is what I care about. Not material things.

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I will never forget walking out on a Saturday night with Simon Cowell and Sharon Osbourne, household names who were opinionated and full of confidence, and I was just this Irish guy.

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Money doesn't make you happy - I know people in the U.K. with money, they never seem to be happy.

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It's very hard to meet somebody that you're comfortable with who really knows you.

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I'm low-maintenance. And I'm not going vegan.

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I think Dublin is the best place in the world, all you need is money. I feel safe here, no one is going to shoot me, like in the States.

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All I do in Dublin is relax and live away from the cameras. There are a few coffee shops I love and I spend my days in there drinking cappuccinos.

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There's a difference between buying a few places yourself and getting into the property game.

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All you need in a successful boyband is two great singers and three okay singers and you get can away with it.

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I wanna be a manager, because that's my day job. It's my real job.

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I married Stephen Gately off to so many people because Stephen didn't want anyone to know he was gay at the start. He was dreading all of his life that this was going to ruin his career.

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Niall Horan was in the right place at the right time, he's the luckiest guy in the world and he knows that.

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It takes a very wise man to act the fool.

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You don't bring your wife to work.

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I act like I'm a bit stupid.

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My sexuality is irrelevant.

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Sharon Osborne, my good friend, sent me to her doctor to have my eyes done in L.A., and it made me look 10 years younger.

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I worry about dying all the time so I worry about my health. I don't want to die because I absolutely love my life.

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I've had three Eurovision winners: two with Johnny Logan and one with Linda Martin and even Jedward did great, because 'Lipstick' was a great song and they had a great show. It was a great visual.

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I love doing 'X Factor,' I absolutely love it. It has its highs and lows. Sometimes I love it more than other times. It is the best job in the world though.

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I hate putting on weight.

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I watched 'In Treatment,' that was good.

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The thing with One Direction is they were massive worldwide. They were going from continent to continent, right across America.

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Too many artists appear to forget where they came from.

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I want to carry on in the music business and in television because it's basically a hobby and a passion that I actually get paid for.

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I'm a news junkie. Anderson Cooper, I watch him every night. I watch Piers Morgan a lot as well.

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I've had more comebacks than Frank Sinatra.

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I say things I shouldn't and I can't stop myself. It's called no filter.

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I'll never go down the Botox route. I swear to God, never, ever. I want to look like me... the only thing I've had done is my hair and the bags under my eyes taken away.

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I don't have many friends, but I have enough. I'm not one of these people who collects celebrity friends.

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If you're Ronan Keating, who was working in a shoe shop when I discovered him, but end of thinking you're George Michael, then you need to be stopped.

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Top 74 Quotes & Sayings by Louis Walsh

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