Mind Quote by Raftaar

At an early age, I understood music... the rhyme schemes, melodies and harmonies.

— Philip Bailey

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

— Del Shannon

I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the…

— Francesca Lia Block

Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing…

— Billy Collins

I loved all music as a listener, but I didn't think I could sing, but there was something about rhythmic rapping and poetry that…

— Jelly Roll

I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as…

— Matt de la Pena

When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse; sixteen bar,…

— Kate Tempest

It's very easy to think about rhymes and just usage of words that sound good but don't mean anything. Basically, I try to put…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

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 wanted to become a writer and felt that poetry was perfected language, so having it in my subconscious mind would make the music…

— Caterina Fake

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

I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that…

— Rakim