Rhyme Quotes

• I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Rap
  • Devil
  • Hip Hop

• 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.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Boy
  • Bigs
  • Murder

• And I'd marry you, Harry. Because it rhymes.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Rhyme

• I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Leaving
  • Honesty
  • Verses

• I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.

  

  William Cowper
  • Impossible
  • Poet
  • Equal

• Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Feelings
  • Emotion
  • Rhyme

• When I write I consider it a rhyme. In the studio I consider it laying down vocals. Onstage, I'm entertaining; I don't even think about it.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Rhyme

• I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• I'll be there forever and a day - Always I'll be there till the stars don't shine Till the heavens burst and The words don't rhyme And I know when I die, you'll be on my mind And I'll love you - Always

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Die

• The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • English
  • Glorious
  • Verses

• Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Red
  • Blue
  • Spectrum

• I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

  

  Richard Aldington
  • Dream
  • Silent
  • Verses

• Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.

  

  Kirby Larson
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Picture

• I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only....Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Reason
  • Rhyme
  • Chicks

• My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Me
  • Like
  • Son

• A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Song
  • Rhyme
  • Alcoholic

• You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Want
  • Mathematics
  • Add

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

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Spirit
  • Garden
  • Rose

• This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Lord
  • Sigh

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

  

  Missy Elliott
  • Time
  • Down
  • Rhyme

• Being older now, grown, I'm like, 'What do we really do that's fun?' I'm kind of corny when you think about it. What could I rhyme about? Let me see, um, I gotta pay the rent today.

  

  MF DOOM
  • Older
  • Grown
  • Corny

• We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep Purple. You learn about the percussive value of words, and you learn about rhyme and meter. You learn that you can't transform a poem into a song lyric, mostly because the spoken shape of words is different than the sung shape of words. You wouldn't use the vowel 'U' or the vowel sound 'ooo' for a high note for example, its very difficult.

  

  Ian Gillan
  • Different
  • Long
  • Song

• When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Difficulties
  • Rhyme
  • Rhyming

• [Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

  

  John Milton
  • Age
  • Invention
  • Rhyme

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