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“I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.”

Giving Ideas Form Give Me Originals Patterns Memorable Rhyme Original Ideas Rhyming

Author:Anne Stevenson

“You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.”

Knows Sometimes Reason Numbers Down And Rhyme Music Business Rhyming

Author:Barry McGuire

“If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Reason Play Use Rocks Picks Jazz Fingers Rhyme Rhyming

Author:Kevin Eubanks

“As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.”

Stills War Impossible Poet Rhyme Rhyming

Author:Jean Giraudoux

“I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.”

Way Rhyme Meter Rhyming

Author:Thom Gunn

“The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.”

Ideas Numbers Seeing Equal Poetic Splits Rhyme Rhyming Motifs

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.”

Mean I Can Mines Rhyme Rhyming

Author:Missy Elliot

“I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.”

Thinking May Stills Song Next House Black Dark Pieces Tvs Quiet Jazz Nurse Rhyme Nursery Rhyming Nursery Rhymes

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.”

Giving Written Figures Fit Shapes Bridges Verses Traffic Rhyme Meter Rhyming

Author:Jim Capaldi

“I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.”

Rhyme Making Up Rhyming

Author:Saul Williams

“I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.”

Song Nurse Rhyme Alphabet Nursery Rhyming Nursery Rhymes

Author:Tre Cool

“I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.”

Thinking Talking Competition Rhyme Rhyming

Author:Kool Moe Dee

“I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.”

Kind I Can Girl Fans Huge Beats My Friends Dancing Rhythm Touched Weekend Rhyme Rhyming Neptune

Author:David Gallagher

“Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.”

Sound Relation Structure Accidents Objectives Make Sense Uniforms Accents Rhyme Miraculous Mystic Rhyming Meanings Of Words

Author:John Crowe Ransom

“I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that.”

Want Looks I Want You Look At Me Rhyming

Author:Busta Rhymes

“Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

Knows Doe Said Speak Heard Mark Observation Repeats Rhyme Great American Rhyming Citing American Author

Author:J. D. Hayworth

“I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.”

People Believe Helping Song Stage Projects Appreciate Sells Albums Rhyming Additives

Author:Busta Rhymes

“In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.”

School Form Break Strange Amount Involved High School Math Rhyming

Author:Joanna Newsom

“The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.”

World Firsts Hard Shows Percent Albums Core Rhyming Hard Core

Author:Big Pun

“His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.”

Water Answers Rhyming

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

Source: All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

“The heart, not the head, must be the guide.”

Heart Guides Rhyming

Author:Arthur Erickson

“I've always loved rhyming. I love language.”

Language Rhyming

Author:Mos Def

“To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.”

Different Natural Singing Instruments Different Things Rhyming

Author:Mos Def

“Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.”

Audience Poet Climbs Absurdity Rhyme Wire Rhyming Coney Island

Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.”

Source: It's Always Something

“Money gives me pleasure all the time.”

Giving Pleasure Give Me Rhyming Funny Valentine Funny Valentines Day Card Silly Love

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“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.”

Listening Hip Hop Hips Hops Rhyming Hip Hop Music

Author:John Cena