Kind Quote by Jim Carroll

Poetry gave me back my voice.

— Maya Angelou

I started writing lyrics to clash with other people in the playground. Now I've developed my own voice and my own style. There's no…

— Kano

My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

— Gil Scott-Heron

My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized…

— Anonymous

I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!

— Homer

Sometimes you might get inspired by something, write about it, then later that lyrics sounds better on another beat. That's happened a few times.…

— Dizzee Rascal

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

— Virginia Woolf

I never considered myself part of rock 'n' roll. My stuff was more adult. It was more difficult for teenagers to relate to; my…

— Ray Charles

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

— Frank Sinatra

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

— Countee Cullen

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

It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it…

— Jamila Woods