Dioguardi Idol Quotes & Sayings

As this example suggests, we can experience pleasure without any investment of psychic energy, whereas enjoyment happens only as a result of unusual investments of attention. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs. — Kara DioGuardi

The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly
by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen. — Aeschylus

I felt like I got more comfortable on 'Idol' when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be. — Kara DioGuardi

Yeah ... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that. — Kara DioGuardi

You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you play it backwards; you add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualities ... you produce a vast and subtle symphony. It's a sort of modern magic. We think there's something in it. Some musicians believe it may become an art form in its own right. — Daphne Oram

The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore. — Marianne Williamson

So I committed this horrible offense of treating my husband as if what strangers saw counted, which destroys the whole purpose of marriage, which betrays the trust which is the real point of marriage. — Rebecca West

What is healing, but a shift in perspectives? — Mark Doty