Rhyme Quotes - Page 6

• There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability.

  Oliver Sacks

  Song, Children, Musical

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• Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, Evil, Clay

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• Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

  Philip Levine

  Simple, Naked, Elegance

  Philip Levine (2011). “The Simple Truth: Poems”, p.62, Knopf

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• I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.

  Allen Ginsberg

  New Me, Week, Rhetoric

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• How else do you think life happens? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow. Our lives all crash and collide and you think there's no reason or rhyme to it? If there wasn't any reason for it all, what would be the point? Why do you think anything happens at all? There is an outcome, repercussions and occurrences to everybody you meet and everything you say.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Thinking, Would Be, Outcomes

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• I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.

  Duane Michals

  Helping, Terrible

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• There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time.

  Woody Allen

  Reason, Seems

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• Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Spring, Ambition, Cities

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.30

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• 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.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Doe, Rhyming, Citing

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• I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.

  Rakim

  Reading, Self, Understanding

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.

  Matthea Harvey

  Blue, Long, Suitcases

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• One of the things I try to do is try to make repetitions, rhymes, and mirrorings across the subject matter of my own books so that the chapter titles and the epigraphs and pictures all kind of form a tapestry. In this book, I retell fifteen of the stories. You have the critical frame, and then you have these rosettes like the motif in a carpet.

  Marina Warner

  Book, Trying, Titles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Reason

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• My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

  Mika

  Childhood, Records, Fairytale

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from brain to brain. Memes compete with one another for replication, and are passed down through a population much the same way genes pass through a species. Potent memes can change minds, alter behavior, catalyze collective mindshifts and transform cultures. Which is why meme warfare has become the geopolitical battle of our information age. Whoever has the memes has the power.

  Kalle Lasn

  Dream, Fashion, Philosophy

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• Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

  David Rakoff

  Would Be, Answers, Why Me

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• I can't rhyme for little green apples. What I can do is scan and make patterns.

  Delia Sherman

  Apples, Patterns, Green

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it.

  Pat Conroy

  Fashion, Mean, Doe

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• Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes.

  Torae

  Writing, Acting, Lines

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Memories, Air

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

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• Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

  Damian Marley

  Party, Rap, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

  Lois Lowry

  Bunnies

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• If you can stand on stage and perform a record, you should be able to stand on stage and captivate the audience without the rhyme. You should be a master of ceremonies.

  Torae

  Records, Able, Should

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

  Alan Light

  Writing, Rapper, Fake

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme.

  Patricia Montandon

  San Francisco, Hills

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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