Effort Quote by Black Thought

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

— Robert Morgan

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't…

— Edward Hirsch

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and…

— Kelela

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and…

— Gary Ross

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 or event,…

— Ann Reed

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

— King Tuff

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

— Dorothy Fields

The lyrics seem to follow the music, and that's usually how I write. I write more about what comes out of my mouth while…

— Gary Louris

When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out!

— John Cooper Clarke

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if…

— Ice T

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

— Van Morrison

I don't really write music in the traditional sense of chorus, verse. It's more experimental sounding. The process comes from an experimentation with noise.

— Bonobo