Gaudio Quotes & Sayings

But what's so great about being a perfectionist? ... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off. — Lionel Shriver

Okay, so I'm the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero. — Richard Siken

But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story. — Bob Gaudio

Life is but a collection of habits. — Ida Tarbell

Obama is very much an establishment sort of guy. The whole image of him as a transcendent figure was based on style rather than substance. If you actually looked at what he said, not how he said it, he said very establishment things. He's a moderate, cautious, ameliorative guy. He tends to gravitate toward Beltway conventional wisdom. — Paul Krugman

Speaking intelligence to an ignorant person is like talking to a cock roach- They simply can't understand. — Angela Reuss

We liked the Beach Boys. There was kind of that friendly East Coast, West Coast thing between us. We were always fans. 'God Only Knows' is a brilliant record. — Bob Gaudio

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education. — John Dewey

One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages. What the Church did was to keep learning alive in the monasteries, while preventing the spread of knowledge outside them ... Even as late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, nine-tenths of Christian Europe was illiterate. — Margaret E. Knight

I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids. — Jim Carrey

The first thing people look at with Four Seasons records is the vocals. But for me, the drum fills and rhythms are as much a part of it as anything. They're the base on which the harmonies were built. — Bob Gaudio

I get tips from Bob Gaudio. And one of my songs somehow caught the attention of one of my idols, Marty Panzer, who wrote big hits for Barry Manilow. So two guys who inspired me to write lyrics are now teaching me to write. — Erich Bergen

Our fears are groomed for us and implanted within us by others who did the same for themselves... — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think that always myself is my worst opponent. I always playing against myself first and then to the other one. So I'm playing against two guys during the match ... It's like mentally I don't know what is gonna happen in the next ten minutes. Maybe I get depressed in ten minutes. I don't know myself too much ... Yeah, I was working with a psychology, and I still. — Gaston Gaudio

And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night. — Julia Caroline Dorr

My problem is not that I don't want to play, it's that I don't want to live! — Gaston Gaudio

The true test of our worldview is what we find entertaining. — Albert Mohler

By talking others out of their dreams, critical people excuse themselves for staying in their comfort zones. — John C. Maxwell

Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We were never a phenomenon. — Bob Gaudio

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. — Ramana Maharshi