Spoken Word Quotes

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. Adolf Hitler
Great People Emotions Word Goddess Torch Distress Cast Ruthless Volcanic Spoken Spoken Word Passions Stirred Human Movements Midst Popular Activity
I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself a spoken word poet. Anne Waldman
Myself Sometimes Word Poet Structures Never Songs Spoken Spoken Word Longer Call Mantra
What I love is the comedy of the body. It's a little highfalutin', but you can even say pre-verbal comedy. People laugh differently at stuff that isn't brought to them via the spoken word. It's from a different place; it's a different quality of laughter. Bill Irwin
Love You Quality Love Is People Comedy Word Laughter Say Laugh Brought Spoken Spoken Word Stuff Via Different Place Little Them Body Different Place Even Differently
The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word. Bob Edwards
You Word Distract Picture Broadcaster Perfect Spoken Spoken Word Pictures Listener Different Little Little Help Created Help Showing Different Things Things
Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word. Jill Scott
Writing Word Perspective Thought Black Girl Starts Everything Wow Vivid Spoken Spoken Word She Doing Heard Blown Blown Away Just Away Imagery Started
I wanted to do 'Manzanar' because I'd never done anything like it before. The spoken word there is between a drama and an essay, and I'd never worked in concert with an orchestra. John Cho
Word Before Drama Never Spoken Spoken Word Between Like Concert Because Essay Done Orchestra Wanted Anything Worked
My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much into the head-bobbing vibe with sophisticated lyrics. Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Word Long Band Jazz Bass Bass Player Lyrics Spoken Spoken Word Sophisticated Very Vibe Sensibilities Much Miles Player
Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do. Mary Lambert
Work Word Job Incredible Strive Poetry Poets Putting Spoken Spoken Word Lot Really Page Who
I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music. Mat Kearney
Music Word College Before Poetry Spoken Spoken Word Major Liked Wrote Did Really English English Major
I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and was frustrated by that. Matt Reeves
Me Eyes Son Intelligence Speak Amazing Word Language Father Before Sign See Could He Spoken Spoken Word Him Learn Around Understand How His Going Frustrated Use Actually
Like it or not, liberal radio hosts fail miserably in the spoken word format. Mike Gallagher
Word Liberal Hosts Fail Spoken Spoken Word Like Format Radio
I always like spoken word records. Ry Cooder
Word Records Spoken Spoken Word Like Always
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action. Tracy Letts
Word Stage Action Our Way Tell Visual Spoken Spoken Word Stories Movies Convey Use Images
Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds. Will Hermes
Me Dark Comeback Word Heroes Made Prison Other Worry Backgrounds Record About Voice Records Troubles Raw Spoken Spoken Word Pieces Terms Always Arrest His Heard Stories Electronic Prepared Recently
While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Home You Travel Word Faster Only Take Written Absorb Written Word Spoken Spoken Word Reader Hand Convenience While Your Wholly
It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap. M.I.A.
Music Word Goddess Rap Spoken Spoken Word Which Coincidence
There was something about stand-up that music wouldn't give me, which was my love of the spoken word and the mercurial tendency of language to respond to what happens to you. Bill Bailey
Love Music Me You Word Language Respond About Give Something Give Me Tendency Spoken Spoken Word Happens Which

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