67 Rhyme Quotes for You to Enjoy

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to. James Fenton

Challenge First Down Respond Poem Thrown Generally Like Line End Itself Rhyme Which Speaking

No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode. James Fenton

While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. In high school, I won a Scholastic poetry contest. Jane Yolen

'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. Jerry Leiber

Work Music You Writing Dog Complicated Energy Difficult Took City Easy Minutes Structure Scheme Hound Like Spontaneous Piece Also Hear Metric Maybe Blues Eight Rhyme Kansas Kansas City Twelve Early

I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now. Jill Scott

Ten Ten Years Years May Rhyme Now Right

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me. Jill Scott

Me Song Self Excites Puts Instrument Person Rhyme Whole Fills

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. Jim Capaldi

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme. Joanna Newsom

Great Me Lyrics Has-Been Something Poem Delight Clear Excitement Idea Between Line Been Source Very Get Different Rhyme

I think there's really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it's a numbers game, but some of the best shows get canceled, and some shows where you don't totally understand why they're on the air stay on for 15 or 20 years. Jordana Spiro

The idea of New Zealanders sounding like Americans is not it. You got to rhyme in your language, your accent. KRS-One

You Language Idea New Like Accent Got American Rhyme Your

There's kind of no rhyme or reason to what is appealing to any given actor. It just is, or it isn't. It's kind of like dating. You either connect to someone or you don't. You can't really say why. Katherine Waterston

You Say Kind Someone Given Dating Like Any Just Rhyme Either Really Reason Connect Appealing Actor Why

A whole bunch of 'ayes' and a whole bunch of 'yeahs.' That's it. That's all I do. I say yeah. I tell myself that I'm not gon' go over 80. I say, like, 79 yeahs, and it works. We what you call mumble rappers. So you say 'yeah' after everything and make it rhyme no matter what it is. Lil Uzi Vert

Myself You Matter Everything Say Tell Rappers Over Like Make Call Yeah Go Bunch After Rhyme Whole Works Mumble

Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions. Lin-Manuel Miranda

Life Music Myself Great Words My Life Living Everybody Everybody Else Else Out More Superpower Could Developing Until Joys Talked Occasions Making Been Very Same Same Level Listened Just Rhyme Then Special Actual Conscious Level Started Pull

When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me. Marv Levy

Me First Reading John Poe Poetry Poets Edgar Read Were Rhyme Holmes Captured Oliver Started Started Reading

It's really hard to find a lot of things that rhyme with Michael Diamond. Mike D

Diamond Find Lot Michael Rhyme Really Hard Things

One of my favorite moments was when me and Jay-Z made a song 'For Rhyme or Reason.' It ended up on 'Reasonable Doubt,' but they switched the beat because we couldn't get clearance from my label. Mike Dean

Me Song Made Doubt Favorite Beat Clearance Because Label Up Get Ended Rhyme Jay-Z Reason Reasonable Moments Switched

It's important to me that my songs actually make sense. So often, I turn on the radio, and I have no idea what the people are singing about. It may sound good, but when you listen, they're just saying words that rhyme. It's another song about nothing. Mike Posner

Saying Good Me You People Song Words Important Singing Sense Nothing No Idea About Songs Idea Make Another Sound Listen May Often Just Rhyme Turn Turn-On Radio Actually

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

Time Down Mine Get Rhyme Mean

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don't even rhyme with T. Mr. T

Day All Day Tender Could Talk Talking Rhyme Stands Even Things

I am my own parent when it comes to rapping and do impromptu stuff. Being a rapper, you have to be good at improvising, like you give me a word and I have to rhyme it quickly and then make sense out of the rhyme. Raftaar

I knew I had a sharper mind than most others and I had a sense of rhyme. One didn't even need to sing melodies. It felt like the perfect way to make my way out of the gutter. Raftaar

My thing was, I loved music. I played music: I played the saxophone. So the little bit of music knowhow I had, I tried to implement that in every thing I did, from my style, my cadence, the way I tried to pause and stagnate it; that all came from John Coltrane and listening to jazz albums. Trying to rhyme like a jazz player. Rakim

Music Listening Style Jazz Every Way Saxophone Bit Tried John John Coltrane Had Coltrane Implement Like Came Trying Did Loved Rhyme Little Little Bit Pause Thing Played Player Albums

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