A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
“Before he got too far, he thought he smelled a fire. No sooner did he blink before he sensed something dire. He… — J.Z. Bingham Copy Share Image
I remember reading Dr. Seuss books, and he's rhyming so many words together and I just loved the way it sounded. It… — Tierra Whack Copy Share Image
In the beginning I was just rhyming. I didn't know nothing about the business. I was just laying low in the cut… — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“Kat held her head high as she met the King's eye. Her stare was bold, yet sweet, and it would not die.… — J.Z. Bingham Copy Share Image
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop:… — Abbie Cornish Copy Share Image
When people ask me, 'When are you gonna stop rhyming?' I don't know when I'm gonna stop rhyming because we all got… — Ghostface Killah Copy Share Image
Things like rhyming - it just wasn't falling out of my head that way. So I started to get quite freaked out… — Elena Tonra Copy Share Image
For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Well Ive been rhyming since I was 5 years old and I kinda stopped when I was 10. Then this summer I… — Diggy Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then… — Nas Copy Share Image
I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics,… — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
“Wherever you go in the next catastrophé Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ry Do not fear that your stay will be… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme… — Kevin Eubanks Copy Share Image
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be… — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
When you laugh, and you grin, when you hold me so near. I let go of my worries, my anxieties and all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide; but a hidden star can still be… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
“A glassy calm replaced the storm surrounding their boat. The distant thunder struck a note, white-hot and remote. An invisible magnet seemed… — J.Z. Bingham Copy Share Image
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't.… — Barry McGuire Copy Share Image
I used to see my dad and his brothers rhyming, and I knew I wanted to do that one day. I'm like… — Romeo Miller Copy Share Image
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music. — John Cena Copy Share Image
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them;… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
Back in the day, rappers were 'bump bump bump ba bump ba bump.' They was rhyming like that, but I was like,… — Rakim Copy Share Image
When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds.… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over… — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
I have my faithful rhyming dictionary that sits up there on my desk, but I have to tell you, there are very… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image