Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I knew that my trauma, no matter what it was, was not unique. I knew that pain was the universal driving force… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color… — Johannes Itten Copy Share Image
What I love is the comedy of the body. It's a little highfalutin', but you can even say pre-verbal comedy. People laugh… — Bill Irwin Copy Share Image
“The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken,… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently,… — Will Hermes Copy Share Image
My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine.… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I see myself as a communicator. So any way that I can, any medium, any art… — Tedashii Copy Share Image
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
As a young woman, I experienced high school and heartbreak, and the music I started to write was a little bit more… — Gabriella Wilson Copy Share Image
“A good writer is also an avid reader. A good reader is also a vivid dreamer. A good dreamer is also a… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Beta males and females historically fare poorly in anchor positions, and whoever has the dominate, or more alpha, personality will always win… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I greatly admire Justice Thomas. I think he is incredible, and he is very humble. He is rarely heard from. But his… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to… — Horace Copy Share Image
“He doesn’t understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
I didn't start writing music until I was a sophomore in college. I would steal my roommate's guitar and sit on the… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient… When asked, how I have for so many years continued an… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and… — Miljenko Jergovic Copy Share Image
The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“Like us, animals feel love, joy, fear and pain, but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to speak… — Sylvia Dolson Copy Share Image
Moreover, the whole purpose of God's mighty acts is to bring man to know Him by faith; and Scripture knows no foundation… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There was something about stand-up that music wouldn't give me, which was my love of the spoken word and the mercurial tendency… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
“I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more… — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
“[Science] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
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![“[Science] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design of planes on science, they fly. If you base the design of rockets on science, they reach the moon. It works... bitches.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/885/richard-dawkins-115_computers_science-works-planes-fly-cars-drive-comp_561441.jpg)
