Rhyming Quotes

Bruzundanga's literature is ruled by cute, rhyming and tasteless sonnets. (Lima Barreto)

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

Isaac Hayes

One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

Ezra Pound

I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I'm not sure if that comes across or not.

Joanna Newsom

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

Jack London

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

Wyclef Jean

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Gertrude Stein

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

Christopher Marlowe

If you open up your eyes and imagine. Expand your horizon with rhyming and rapping. Quit rapping and rhyming bout cocaine supplying. And clapping is anyone out there or are yall all absent?

Lupe Fiasco

My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.

Eminem

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 what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped really. (Ice Cube)

I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.

Damian Marley

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

Dorothy Fields

I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.

Jill Scott

I used to see my dad and his brothers rhyming, and I knew I wanted to do that one day. I'm like any other boy, always wanting to follow in his father's footsteps.

Lil Romeo

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 beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.

Ann Powers

Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross; Who pens a stanza, when he should engross.

Alexander Pope

Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recap.

David Ogilvy

I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough.

Talib Kweli

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

Mos Def

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming. (Mos Def)

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

In this room, the salamander was squashed between the pages of the rhyming dictionary, thereby changing poetry forever. Here, Salome walked around with a big red fish held high up over her head. Old Father spanked her with a ballet slipper, sending her to bed without milk or honey. Dance was changed in this room, too.

Tom Robbins

When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

Jerry Saltz

Music business hate me ‘cause the industry ain't make me Hustlers and boosters embrace me and the music I be making I dumbed down for my audience to double my dollars They criticized me for it, yet they all yell "holla" If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense But I did 5 mill' – I ain't been rhyming like Common since When your cents got that much in common And you been hustling since your inception Fuck perception! Go with what makes sense Since I know what I'm up against We as rappers must decide what's most important And I can't help the poor if I'm one of them So I got rich and gave back, to me that's the win/win So next time you see the homie and his rims spin Just know my mind is working just like them (rims, that is)

Jay-Z