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Simon Cowell to Taylor Hicks: 
It sounded like you'd chosen that song ten seconds ago with no rehearsal.
(4/4/06)Simon Cowell to Taylor Hicks:
Taylor, you could single-handedly kill the music-video industry. That was definitely a radio performance. (3/8/06)Simon Cowell to Taylor Hicks:
I said in the beginning that I didn’t think you should make the finals of this competition. I was wrong. (2/22/06)Taylor Hicks:
It's music, man. If music is in your heart, you feel it, you play it, you sing it, you perform it, you bust your buns doing it. That is what it's all about!Season 1