Music And The Spoken Word Quotes

#1. It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

M.I.A.

#2. Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

Thomas Hood

#3. Going hungry never bothered me - it was having no clothes.

Cher

#4. Man is a musical being. His origin is in the spoken Word. By sound was he sustained and by music he evolved. One day he will recognize music as a vital factor in the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual evolution of the whole human race.

Corinne Heline

#5. Your ability to navigate & tolerate change & its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness & general well-being

Amy Poehler

#6. There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate ... but with music it's just music.

Tommy Chong

#7. There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

Multatuli

#8. I work because I love it. It's a projection of myself. It allows me to express my enthusiasm for music and film using the spoken word, which I love, and broadcasting, a medium which has always fascinated me. I'm very lucky.

Paul Gambaccini

#9. The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless.

A.E. Samaan

#10. Friendships grow from small acts of kindness

Dorothy Koomson

#11. Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.

Jeff Britting

#12. To read a poem
Is to see light where there is darkness
Is to hear silence where there is noise
Is to dance where there is no music
Is to sing where the only instrument is words
And the stirring, impassioned pauses

A.A. Patawaran

#13. I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Russell Simmons

#14. In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

Victor Wooten

#15. I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don't want them, so I take them back and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists.

Richard Siken

#16. The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them

Albert Einstein

#17. Clothes covered in red,
Eyelids sore and blue,
Never forget the ruthless
Because they won't ever forget you.

J.J. McAvoy

#18. Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!

Jean Van Hamme

#19. Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

Stone Gossard