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Rhymes more fresher than a virgin in a 'frigerator. -- Lord Finesse
Ayo, shout out to Mobb Deep, the Extra P Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don't sleep -- Q-Tip
In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B. -- Bobby Moynihan
It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.' -- Q-Tip
My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me. -- CeeLo Green
I know Busta Rhymes for about a year now and we did a song together and we got an album together which is called "Godzilla vs. King Kong", which is going to be me and Busta. That was really the first time we rocked together on stage. -- Bone Crusher
I'm definitely inspired by Michael Jackson. I watch all his videos all the time. And Busta Rhymes, early Busta Rhymes - I really was inspired by him. He's really the reason why I started rapping. Because all his visuals. I loved his videos when I was younger. -- Tyga
Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous, Always misbehaving and mischeivous, Causing aggravation, I'll never pause, Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws. -- Busta Rhymes
You're gonna get your traditional Busta Rhymes and Pharrell collabo. My man Focus from the Aftermath crew; Dr. Dre; the late, great J Dilla got work on the album. It's gonna be great - look forward to the new bang-out. -- Busta Rhymes
Rhymes with push-koo; I always say it sounds like a breakfast cereal. -- Eliza Dushku
My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes. -- J. Cole
I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.' -- Demetri Martin
I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. -- Tre Cool
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense. -- Van Morrison
But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know. -- Charlie Sheen
A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious. -- Eminem
I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse. -- Taylor Swift
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems. -- Margaret Atwood
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems. -- Italo Calvino
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. -- J. D. Hayworth
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Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat. -- Damian Marley
I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph. -- Garrison Keillor
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read. -- James Fenton
Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say. -- Queen Latifah
Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. -- John Crowe Ransom
The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but it also rhymes with 'urbane' since the last syllable of 'urbane' is stressed. 'Lane' does not rhyme with 'methane.' -- James Fenton
My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme. -- Conor Oberst
In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading. -- Mos Def
Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand. -- Quincy Jones
I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about. -- Ice T
When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make. -- Talib Kweli
I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around. -- Q-Tip
I'm more into beats than rhymes. -- David Gallagher
History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes. -- Mark Twain
School is cool. Thats why it rhymes -- Terry Crews
Puttin rhymes into shape just like Jack LaLanne. -- Lord Finesse
My rhymes make niggas rebuild like water damage... -- Meyhem Lauren
And I'd marry you, Harry. Because it rhymes. -- Louis Tomlinson
History may not repeat, but it often rhymes. -- Mark Twain
History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes. -- Mark Twain
I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry. -- Ice T
The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. -- Mark Twain
I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone. -- Demetri Martin
Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark? -- Mike Birbiglia
My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes. -- Lord Byron
Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes). -- Cybill Shepherd
Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger -- Raekwon
People don't ask Jay-Z to take his shirt off when he rhymes, -- Janelle Monae
No more rhymes now I mean it!" "Anybody want a peanut?" "AAHH! -- William Goldman
Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people. -- KRS-One
You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined? -- David Mutti Clark
I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes -- Common
I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes. -- Kendrick Lamar
I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy. -- India.Arie
Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile -- Nicki Minaj
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. -- Saul Williams
People only call me 'Fiery' because it rhymes with Fred, just like 'Typhoon' rhymes with Tyson -- Fred Trueman
I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing. -- Joaquin Phoenix
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Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong! -- GZA
He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what. -- William Goldman
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I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts, Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once. -- Dres
Mic is volcanic, rhymes spread across the planet, I send out the scribe, now the vibes gigantic. -- Louis Eric Barrier
I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic. -- Rakim
Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs. -- Karisma Kapoor
My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped. -- Talib Kweli
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Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes. -- Torae
They say man he reading rhymes off his iPhone, no I texting your girl meet me at my home -- Troy Ave
I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil. -- KRS-One
I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes. -- Raekwon
Ðfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like. -- Jeremih
We live in an era where it ain't about dope rhymes. When beef is online, and how big is your co-sign... -- Jon Connor
Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp. -- Ice T
Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet. -- Charles Spurgeon
It's easy to remember, because dating rhymes with mating, and they're almost the same [...] So your mom thinks we're ma-- Uh, dating? -- Anna Banks
I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin -- Nas
I'm tryin' to be part of a functioning society so I can't listen to Curren$y man. His rhymes make me high haha. -- Sean Price
In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine. -- Alfred Austin
There are many rhymes about magpies, but none of them is very reliable because they are not the ones that the magpies know themselves. -- Terry Pratchett
You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive. -- Sarah McLachlan
Delores is a gorgeous name, for a gorgeous girl. Plus, it rhymes with clitoris...and I really know my way around them. Big fan. -- Emma Chase
I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist. -- Yukmouth
Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off. -- Anne Sexton
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
Chubi, rhymes with booby, which you don't have, or doodie, which your face looks like," she said smugly, leaning back and making her chair squeak. -- Kim Harrison
You're Bes, I guess?" I said. "Yes," he said. "Your car's a mess," Liz muttered. "If one more person rhymes," Emma grumbled, "I'll throw up. -- Rick Riordan
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever. -- Alan Garner
For the young Gaels of Ireland Are the lads that drive me mad, For half their words need footnotes And half their rhymes are bad. -- Arthur Guiterman
Think, just blink and I made...a million rhymes. Just imagine if you blinked...a million times. Damn, I'd be paid...I got it made. -- Special Ed
After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper. -- Alan Light
I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem. -- William Butler Yeats
From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf. -- Alfred Austin
Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world ? Los Angeles in the '50s ? they made perfect sense. -- Wanda Coleman
Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock. -- Anne Sexton
However, I'm older, wiser, more mature, and can deliver the rhymes in a different way. Because I guess I have a more holistic viewpoint and approach. -- MC Lyte
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition. -- Kool Moe Dee
Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie". -- King Louie
I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them. -- Edgar Guest
Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes? -- George Orwell
I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something. -- Ice T
The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases. -- Paul Claudel
There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Seohyun's so pure that if Seohyun wasn't a singer, she'd still be singing nursery rhymes. Seohyun watches TV until 2am in the morning. What she watches is the cartoon channel. -- Choi Soo-young
In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute. -- Robert Browning
A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious -- Eminem
I started putting words together, making rhymes and being witty with the wordplay. I can play a little bit of guitar, and that's something I'm going to dedicate more time to doing. -- James Paxton
Some of you been trying to write rhymes for years, But weak ideas irritate my ears. Is this the best that you can make? Cause if not, and you got more...I'll wait. -- Rakim
I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement, with almosts - even the rhymes are intentionally off. -- Randall Mann
No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd to say 'Write! thou wilt never have a better day. -- John Keats
There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle. -- Carl Sandburg
Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes. -- Elvis Presley

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