Kara DioGuardi Quotes

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.

The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.

I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next.

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.

A great song is a great song.

A great song is one that is around even when I'm not.

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

Here comes another spell-binder.

For trance music to be good, it has to sneak up on you.

The best part of watching any show is that feeling of being sucked in. If I'm watching 'Breaking Bad,' there is something compelling about Walter White.

We want these movies to be timeless, and we want people to really engage with the characters and find something that they can really relate to and emotionally connect with.

He was gorgeous, and I absolutely, no question, had to be drooling. After a quick and hopefully stealthy check – big show, I wasn’t!- I found myself wonder what color his eyes were. Brown maybe. Or even hazel. Either way…wow, just wow. Deer? Headlights? Hi, I’m Ali.

The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that it's real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like 'Let It Be' or 'Long and Winding Road' or a song like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Roxanne,' any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it's not just American. A great song can touch the world.

A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.

I always tell people, the first time I heard 'She Talks To Angels,' those lyrics did something to me.

The more extreme the story, the more successful it becomes. Emotions on high, empathy engaged, we become primed to help.