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Songwriters tell the truth.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Songwriters
Telling The Truth
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I've never been fired in my life.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Life My Life Never
Fired
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Bee Gees
Bees
Great Writers
Bee
Great Writer
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I looked a little pasty. But hey, at least I didn't wet myself!
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Hey
Littles
Pasties
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I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Kind
Native
New Yorkers
New Yorker
Yorker
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Ceilings
Hair
Looks
Ceiling
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Hated
Song
Years
Perform
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I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Albums
Looks
Record Stores
Records
Stores
Thrill
Always Look See
Look Always See
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Goes On
People
Tv Shows
Throw
Tv Show
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Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Backbone
Industry
Music Industry
New Songs
Song
Good Music New
Hit
Survive
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Being Myself
Idols
Trying
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Being Myself
Myself Being Myself Trying
Idol
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Fright
Stage Fright
Yeah
Idol
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Idols
Past
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Excited
Frank
Parent
Stones
Aretha
Pumping
Sinatra
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Breakup
Credit
Drama
Dysfunction
Song
Twenties
Draw
Picked
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Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Buying
Looks
People
Voice
Stands
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The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Mean
Notes
Tricky
Voice
Hits
Voices
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A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Phones
Song
Anything Else
Phone
Great Song
Picking
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I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
People
Unique
Voice
Distinct
Hits
Voices
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There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Careers
Inspiration
Song
Achieving
Craft
Intersect
Skilled
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I've never in my life bought a big piece of jewelry - like, 'I'm gonna get myself a big piece of jewelry!' Songwriters' lives are unstable and up and down. Even though mine has sort of has followed more of a going toward the sky trajectory.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Jewelry
Pieces
Sky
Songwriters
Trajectory
Unstable
Up And Down
Life Myself My Life
Bought
Followed
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You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Accelerate
Consistently
Musician
People
Songwriters
Writing
Success Best Your
Craft
Talented
Every Single Day
Sharp
Single Day
Skilled
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I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Children
Decision
Live Tv
Pregnant
Stress
Your Body
Achieving
Fails
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Book
Deals
Rejected
Successful
Thinking
Understood
People Know Trying
Craft
Executive
Finally
Helluva
High Note
Hone
Note
Publisher
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Mean
Song
Stars
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Phenomenon
Idol
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I think Bruno Mars is a great example of a great voice and classic songwriting with a twist that makes it contemporary. I think he's done a great job of it. I think Katy Perry has undeniable songs for what she does, for that pop market. And, if we're talking in the truly pop market, I would say those two.
Kara Dioguardi / Singer-Songwriter
Jobs
Classic
Contemporary
Example
Mars
Song
Talking
Thinking
Voice
Songs
Great Example
Market
Perry
Pop
Truly
Twist
Undeniable
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