The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
I always listen to music while I'm working and I always read aloud to my wife. I love to read aloud to… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“ cadence , n . I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Wait." "Stop?" I bit my lip and nodded. "Stop everything, or just go no further?" "Just...just no further." "Done." He gathered me… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
I come from the belief that all good films find their time whether it's on opening week or sometime later. That's certainly… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I probably would've kept slogging on that same chord change, because there's a tendency to have that happen. You get into the… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
[True Detective] is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student.… — Dawn Angelique Copy Share Image
How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I value my core fans I got from the hood. I think a lot of things might hit home with them, like… — Gucci Mane Copy Share Image
A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I go all the way back to the Hot Boys days and being 13, listening to this dude. Just remembering the staple… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated. — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much… — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
“These are the three things—volume of sound, modulation of pitch, and rhythm—that a speaker bears in mind. It is those who do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I dribbled by the hour with my left hand when I was young. I didn't have full control, but I got so… — Bob Cousy Copy Share Image
To me it's just the knock, man. It's the knock and the groove of the beat. When I start a song, it's… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
“The cadence of accountability is a rhythm of regular and frequent meetings of any team that owns a wildly important goal. These… — Chris McChesney Copy Share Image
All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Find your balance and stand with it. Find your song and sing it out. Find your cadence and let it appear like… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
How, then, has Obama been saddled with an image of being long on inspiration and short on details? The answer is that… — Howard Kurtz Copy Share Image
I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image