I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing.… — David Gallagher Copy Share Image
So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
I think there's really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it's a numbers game, but… — Jordana Spiro Copy Share Image
“Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see a rhyme in… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I don't remember the first poem that I wrote because I've been creating poems since I was around 2 or 3. I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Larry King has been married more times than Henry the Eighth. We used to have that rhyme to keep track of them.… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to write a love song, you need to not try to write it for a particular person in a… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write… — Evan Dando Copy Share Image
For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If you're a poet and you're using rhyme, rhyme generates ideas. If you're a songwriter and you're using melody and words together,… — Momus Copy Share Image
Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her… — Frank Dempster Sherman Copy Share Image
Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Thanks for the joy that you're givin' me I want you to know I believe in your song Rhythm and rhyme and… — Dobie Gray Copy Share Image
“So the first thing about the history of rhyme . . . is that it’s all happened before. It’s all part of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm happy unless I'm not happy. And I think this is the thing with grief, there is no rhyme or reason to… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical, Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics… — Masta Ace Copy Share Image
In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and… — William Regal Copy Share Image
I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Everybody has they're own audience you know what I'm saying. I write rhymes and make music for the people that I fell… — Bun B Copy Share Image
Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling… — Ann Reed Copy Share Image
A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you… — Billie Whitelaw Copy Share Image
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat… — Ice T Copy Share Image
'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Basically, I'm going to take what you did, the bare-bones structure of what you were trying to do, how you were attacking… — Bun B Copy Share Image
The artwork for the record is kind of an homage to that. It's a collage, which rhymes with homage, I just realized.… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
