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• 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

  Sweet, Feet, Patterns

  "Affirmations: As for Imagism". The New Age, January 1915.

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• A rhyme doesn't make a song.

  Dorothy Fields

  Song, Rhyming

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• Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Needs, Agree

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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.

  Anne Stevenson

  Memorable, Ideas, Giving

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• Some of you been trying to write rhymes for years,
  But weak ideas irritate my ears.
  Is this the best that you can make?
  Cause if not, and you got more...I'll wait.

  Rakim

  Rap, Writing, Years

  Song: Move the Crowd

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• People say, 'Grimm, you've been shot like 50.
  So why don't you just rhyme like 50?
  Then, you could get the money like 50,
  Otherwise, before you see success...you'll be 50.'

  MF Grimm

  Rap, People, Hip Hop

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• I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

  Evan Dando

  Song, Memories, Book

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We live in an era where it ain't about dope rhymes. When beef is online, and how big is your co-sign.

  Jon Connor

  Rap, Dope, Hip Hop

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• See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God.
  Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.

  Lord Finesse

  Rap, Hip Hop, Mind

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• Ayo, shout out to Mobb Deep, the Extra P
  Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don't sleep

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Sleep, Hip Hop

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• Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long.
  Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!

  GZA

  Song, Strong, Rap

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• Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous,
  Always misbehaving and mischeivous,
  Causing aggravation, I'll never pause,
  Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws.

  Busta Rhymes

  Rap, Aggravation, Hip Hop

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• I dribble rhymes like basketball...
  People call me 'E.T.'
  What's that, Shaq man?
  'Extra Tall.'

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Rap, Men

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• Rhymes more fresher than a virgin in a 'frigerator.

  Lord Finesse

  Rap, Hip Hop, Virgins

  Song: Bad Mutha

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• Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp,
  Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp,
  Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll,
  Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy.
  On the microphone:
  I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast.

  Kool Keith

  Rap, Boys, Hip Hop

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• Puttin rhymes into shape just like Jack LaLanne.

  Lord Finesse

  Rap, Hip Hop, Shapes

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  It's Christmas time and my rhyme's steady bumpin. Everybody happy, hair still nappy, Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy.

  Snoop Dogg

  Rap, Hair, Hip Hop

  Song: Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto, 1996

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• I love beats that are hardcore, dirty and raw.
  I love takin niggas burners when they scared to draw.
  I love plottin on my enemies, I love to attack.
  I love beatin down niggas when they rhymes is wack!

  Bumpy Knuckles

  Rap, Dirty, Love Is

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• Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

  Robert Frost

  Vocabulary, Discipline, Delight

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• I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

  Paul Muldoon

  Believe, Rhyming, Language

  Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.

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• I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

  Paul Muldoon

  Use, Television, Rhyming

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• I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there are some subtleties of emotions which I cannot seem to express in pop music, and it frustrates me. Maybe that's why I still search for other ways of expressing myself. Song writing is a limiting experience in some ways - writing down words that have to rhyme.

  John Lennon

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• People don't ask Jay-Z to take his shirt off when he rhymes.

  Janelle Monae

  People, Shirts, Shirt Off

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• My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Garden, Rose, Spirit

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• Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Our Actions, Please, Verses

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