Syllables Quotes

Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz singers out there, and more coming out of the churches. Al Jarreau
Good You Jazz Every Churches Out More Singer Singers Gospel Coming Hear Lot Just Different Using Syllables
What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines, disciplining one's feelings. Derek Walcott
Discipline Feelings Poem Makes Making Lines Fit Trying Inherent Requisite Syllables Number
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?' Derek Walcott
Art Challenge Only Delivering He Contain Over Like Most Also Knows Without How Line Any Going Meaning Actor Thing Interpret Syllable Syllables
I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting. Douglas Adams
Great You Wonderful Become Around Doing Get Fan Fiddling Interesting Used Syllables
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Needs Increased Increasing Seven One Act Say About Case Only Frequent Repetition Familiarity Gradually May Unfamiliar Capacity Act Sequence Grasped Series Consciousness Syllables
Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Heart Must Anew Similar Learned Been Conditions Times Forgotten Which Series Inner Syllables
These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Time Together Several Drawn Out About Construct Material Test Were Mixed Different Which Formed Then Used Series Each Each Time Syllables Chance Number
In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables. James Fenton
You Writing Easier Opinion Odd Line Lines In My Opinion Pattern Rhythms Create Avoid Using Syllables Numbers
At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. James Fenton
Somewhere Relaxed Poetic Most Around Line Manageable English Syllables
It messes me up sometimes when I go on stage and people say my name wrong. Say my name wrong with all these different syllables. I've heard everything. My name is easy as 1-2-3. Jer-eh-mih, syllable-wise. Jeremih
Me People Sometimes Stage Everything Say Easy People Say Wrong Name Messes Go Heard Up Different Syllables
On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way. Ron Rash
Character Words Ending Focus Stage Back Way Out Stay New Vowels Surprised Began Up Trying Often Just Where Different Happen Story Themselves Even Shows Including Letting Syllables Last Drafts Stressed Rub
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. Tahar Ben Jelloun
Words Mother Universe Those Well Mother Tongue Very Which Expressed Syllables Tongue
Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables. Vernon Duke
You Visit Paris Well May Rhythm Really Required Meant Syllables Two
I wanted there to be something to fill the space and to catch the listener's ear, but I didn't want there to be any 'Virtual Self' songs that had a clearly defined vocal with lyrics and top line. If you do hear any lyrics, it's just your brain filling in the gap, because those moments are just various syllables combined. Porter Robinson
You Space Virtual Lyrics Top Defined Those Vocal Something Various Self Had Songs Catch Clearly Combined Because Line Hear Brain Any Listener Just Want Wanted Your Moments Gap Fill Filling Ear Syllables

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