Spoken Word Quotes - Page 5

• The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Song, Want, Facts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.43, SCM Press

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• I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Victory, Words Of Hope

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.489, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People around you are quick to read your attitude of thought toward them. Inner thoughts and feelings are communicated in ways other than by the spoken word.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Attitude, People, Feelings

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• I like spoken-word as much as the singing word.

  Loren Mazzacane Connors

  Singing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy.

  Miljenko Jergovic

  Sleep, Fighting, Silence

  Miljenko Jergović (1997). “Sarajevo Marlboro”, Penguin Uk

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• [Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween... Don't Give Up on Me.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Children, Giving Up, Halloween

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• Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability, but also how this intersects with, for example, issues of gender - she's campaigned for reproductive rights in her native Indonesian, and is currently studying for a PhD in disability and visual cultures at Goldsmiths. She's written a feminist, environmentalist, anti-colonialist narrative poem, with tactile artwork and a Braille translation. How could I not publish that?

  Deborah Smith

  Strong, Artist, Rights

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed with some of the sentences, you know? Syllabication and prosody and such crap. Because the printed word is etched in stone. But for reading purposes I accepted this book of texts in the manner in which I wrote them, no need to fuss. Most of the shorter stuff was written as poetry. Meaning lots of white space on the page.

  Richard Meltzer

  Book, Reading, White

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Men, Law, Affirmation

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2016). “The Complete Collection (with the book "The Power of the Spoken Word")”, p.19, Florence Scovel Shinn

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• Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Pain, Animal, People

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• The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds

  Nelson Mandela

  Real, Deeds, Practicals

  Twitter post from Aug 28, 2016

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• Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

  Charles Osgood

  Pitiful

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• Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts. The scriptures tell us that "Only by pride cometh contention".

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Scripture, Spirit

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• I grew up in the spoken-word community. Before everybody had a home studio, or before we could get booked for shows, open mics were the only way to be heard by other people. It really gave me a chance to develop as a performer. Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

  Macklemore

  Reading, Home, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Apology, Layers

  Donalyn Miller (2010). “The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.

  Sarah Kay

  Trying, Firsts, Slam

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• I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever seen, are spoken word poems that, when you see them, you're aware of the fact they need to be performed. That there's something about that poem that you would not be able to understand if you were just reading it on a piece of paper.

  Sarah Kay

  Believe, Reading, Thinking

  Source: saseye.com

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• First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

  William of Ockham

  Firsts, Language, Term

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• The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the lie, the greater chance that it will be believed. All epoch-making events have been produced not by the written, but the spoken word.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Fall, Events

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, www.thesunmagazine.org. 1925.

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• All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Book, Hero

  "Henry Rollins: Post-Punk Pundit". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 25, 2007.

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• I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information. Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.

  Tom Peters

  Important, Entering, May

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

  William Penn

  Doe, Unspoken Words, Defeat

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• I work because I love it. It's a projection of myself. It allows me to express my enthusiasm for music and film using the spoken word, which I love, and broadcasting, a medium which has always fascinated me. I'm very lucky.

  Paul Gambaccini

  Lucky, Enthusiasm, Film

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Candor compels me to admit that I have no conclusive research to support my view that jingles are less persuasive than the spoken word. You'd run like hell if a salesman came to your door and began singing at you. Why do it in advertising?

  David Ogilvy

  Running, Doors, Views

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• Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Years, Fifty, Lasts

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