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Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits. -- Christopher Marlowe
I aint choose to rhyme, Rhyming chose me... -- Bubba Sparxxx
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. -- Gertrude Stein
When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing. -- Wyclef Jean
Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme. -- Francis Beaumont
Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it. -- Howard Nemerov
I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. -- Tre Cool
I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now. -- Jill Scott
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. -- Alexander Pope
I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine. -- Missy Elliot
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing. -- Trick Daddy
I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way. -- Thom Gunn
The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world. -- Big Pun
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it. -- Duane Michals
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas. -- Anne Stevenson
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense. -- Van Morrison
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. -- Jean Giraudoux
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme. -- Stephane Mallarme
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. -- Gilda Radner
You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason. -- Barry McGuire
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. -- Alfred Austin
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been. -- Kevin Eubanks
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece. -- Bobby McFerrin
I've always loved rhyming. I love language. -- Mos Def
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. -- Dorothy Fields
I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was. -- Jon Scieszka
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. -- Sophie Hannah
To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming. -- Mos Def
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music. -- John Cena
I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti. -- Abbie Cornish
My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate. -- China Mieville
I used to see my dad and his brothers rhyming, and I knew I wanted to do that one day. I'm like any other boy, always wanting to follow in his father's footsteps. -- Romeo Miller
Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would. -- Ann Powers
I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really. -- Ice Cube
I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me. -- Rod Stewart
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going. -- Jerry Saltz
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop. -- Isaac Hayes
I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying. -- Ice T
I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung. -- Jill Scott
I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere. -- Damian Marley
A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man. -- Bruce Springsteen
We're rhyming; we're carrying the banner representing hardcore hip-hop to the death. -- Immortal Technique
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper. -- Tom Robbins
A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart. -- Debasish Mridha
Back then all I cared about was rhyming and making beats. That was my trade, my hobby. -- Rakim
My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills. -- Eminem
Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. -- Jack London
I don't have a problem rhyming "bar" with "car" - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel right. -- Craig Finn
There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad. -- Jay Leno
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross? -- Alexander Pope
I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough. -- Talib Kweli
I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through my friends and fell in love with it. -- Hoodie Allen
If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be Lyrically, Talib Kweli Truthfully, I wanna rhyme like Common Sense But I did 5 mill' - I ain't been rhyming like Common since. -- Jay-Z
A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. -- Dorothy Fields
I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of the first rappers to end their bars rhyming multisyllabically. -- Bun B
Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness. -- Gustave Flaubert
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns. -- Ezra Pound

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