Top 100 Quotes About Rhymes
#1. 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
#2. Red all over the cupboard, mirth rhymes with birth, oh to die of laughter.
Margaret Atwood
#3. Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talkin to he rin rhymes.
Zora Neale Hurston
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only ... .Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks,
Adam Sandler
#7. I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play,
Fencing with rhymes, which, parrying nimbly, back away;
Tripping on words, as on rough paving in the street,
Or bumping into verses I long had dreamed to meet.
Charles Baudelaire
#8. You're gonna notice me when I come in. I'm gonna make a statement without opening my mouth, and when I leave, you're gonna remember that.
Busta Rhymes
#9. Life does rhyme: it rhymes all the time.
Martin Amis
#10. 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
#11. Gamora: History repeating itself?
Warlock: History doesn't repeat itself, Gamora, but sometimes it rhymes.
Dan Abnett
#12. It is nothing, Marie-Laure. Come now." Marie-Laure backs out. Below her, her great-uncle whispers nursery rhymes to himself. "I can sit with him for a bit, Madame. Maybe we could read some more of our
Anthony Doerr
#13. My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
Busta Rhymes
#14. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin.
Busta Rhymes
#16. There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
P. J. O'Rourke
#17. 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
#18. Yes, Yes Yall, You know we talkin it all see how we bringing the street corner to Cargenie hall
Busta Rhymes
#19. I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts,
Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once.
Dres
#20. 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
#21. I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
Tre Cool
#22. I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get.
Paul Simon
#23. 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
#24. I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that.
Busta Rhymes
#25. You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else.
Busta Rhymes
#27. Cheap little rhymes
A cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the moon.
Langston Hughes
#28. I just want to thank Wayne for even mentioning me. I've been following his career since he started, just watching him evolve. He was always clever with the rhymes. My own quest was always to get my music out to everybody in the world and working with Wayne is truly a way to get it out there.
Aaron Dontez Yates
#29. I would let the whole town think I'm a madwoman and a murderer, let it scorn and reject me, let its children compose hateful rhymes to be sung whilst jumping rope.
Cherie Priest
#30. I started growing my hair in December '89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have too.
Busta Rhymes
#31. I don't understand what people are talking about in different rhymes glorifying jail. If you like going to bed early, getting yelled at, seeing a fight, seeing somebody getting their head split open, or fighting over the TV then that's the place for you.
Sadat X
#32. 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
#33. Everybody has they're own audience you know what I'm saying. I write rhymes and make music for the people that I fell wanna hear my music. They write rhymes and make music for the people they feel wanna hear they're music.
Bun B.
#34. 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
#35. I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.
Pat Conroy
#36. 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
#38. Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American as Barbie/ Big Macs. Tomorrow the riots will be forgotten but Mickey mouse will still be there. Welcome to Disneyland.
Richey Edwards
#39. You could put me on any track. I support that one million percent. Whatever the track is, I'm going to smash it. Believe that.
Busta Rhymes
#40. Nearly all children have a feeling for rhythm in words, for the delicate pattern of nursery rhymes. Many adults have lost this feeling and, if they read verse at all, demand a far cruder music than that which they once appreciated.
Louis MacNeice
#41. 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
#42. The obscure, unexplainable aspect of the writing process is about how some rhymes appear in your head. It often feels more like tuning in to some kind of channel than composing words in your mind.
Sahara Sanders
#43. 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
#44. Cancer. Rhymes with "dancer" and "you just shit your pants, sir".
Stephen King
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
Rebecca Makkai
#49. He stood before the door, feeling uncharacteristically nervous. Hi. Uh ... how are ya?
No, no.
Hello, Jack. I'm back.
Shit, that fuckin' rhymes. Sounds like fuckin' Sesame Street.
Hi there. Off with yer clothes.
Nothin' like gettin' right ta the point, huh?
Jane Seville
#50. Funny how the love be fake ... but I ain't stressin'.
Thankful for the love that's genuine ... appreciate the blessin'.
Busta Rhymes
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Damn it," he mumbled apologetically, "things like this never happened to Vorthalia the Bold."
She raised a thoughtful eyebrow. "How do you know? The histories of those times were all written by minstrels and poets. You try and think of a word that rhymes with 'bleeding ulcer
Lois McMaster Bujold
#54. That became the signature Ice-T style - rhymes that were "topical" and "vividly optical." To me it was street-level journalism, real-life observations told in poetry. That's the vision I tried to bring to all my recordings.
Ice-T
#55. I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.
David Gallagher
#56. I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.
Busta Rhymes
#57. Then i starter krompy kromp with Kroomp Krompp and the i kromped all over the Krommmmp!
Busta Rhymes
#58. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!
Busta Rhymes
#59. I will endanger your species like an ostrich,
Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage!
Busta Rhymes
#60. I'm trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don't only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally.
Busta Rhymes
#61. When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you're an adult and you're a poet, it's all about love and pain, but if you're a kid it's, "Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark?"
Mike Birbiglia
#63. 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
#64. I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin
Nas
#65. In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.
Bobby Moynihan
#67. I'm not following any of this, you know. Beecher who?"
"Henry Ward Beecher." Another slug from the bottle. "He's a preacher. Hey, that rhymes."
Well, that answers any questions about whether the alcohol is working.
Rysa Walker
#69. I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I was a singer songwriter, writing for Disney and Sesame Street. I believe in perfect rhymes - no cheating!
Sarah Weeks
#70. It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.
Busta Rhymes
#71. You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?
David Mutti Clark
#72. Soothe and sly stamina with a short sword they slice
They are beyond precise making the victim pay the price
Justin Bienvenue
#73. Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious. They're almost nursery rhymes, as if written by children - which they are.
Rudy Vallee
#75. What better use for words than to inspire:
It's not by chance desire rhymes with fire.
Joseph Roccasalvo
#76. Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say next?' That is just what I do; I ask Him that at every line He would give me not merely thoughts and power, but also every word, even the very rhymes.
Frances Ridley Havergal
#77. Growing up with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I tell you, being globally unique in the age of Google can be extremely helpful.
Clay Shirky
#78. Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.
Roshon Fegan
#79. I'm not him, I'm not the turncloak, he died at Winterfell. My name is Reek, It rhymes with freak
George R R Martin
#80. They say man he reading rhymes off his iPhone, no I texting your girl meet me at my home
Troy Ave
#81. I appreciate this moment in time ... ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes
Common
#82. I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.
Raekwon
#83. My funny old brain, like those of many poets, has always done its best work sideways, seeking out tricky enjambments and surprising slant rhymes to craft lines capable of pulling their own weight.
Kathleen Rooney
#84. I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.
Busta Rhymes
#85. Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her dear dog a bone.
Though the cupboard was bare,
When she focused elsewhere
Her heart overflowed with fun!
Kristen McKee
#86. New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.
Busta Rhymes
#87. Tastes like something that rhymes with cat." -Apollon
Kate Wrath
#88. I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.
Busta Rhymes
#89. Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes.
Torae
#90. 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
#91. The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
She whips a pistol from her knickers.
She aims it at the creature's head,
And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
Roald Dahl
#92. I love to write rhymes that have that perfect jingle. You know what I'm saying when it makes your Heart tingle.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#93. Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).
Cybill Shepherd
#94. Oh, more people than not have some magic, they just forget about it. Children use it all the time - what do you think jump rope rhymes are, or bouncing ball games, or cat's cradles? Where do you think that girl, Aiffe, draws her power? Because she refuses to forget, that's all it is.
Peter S. Beagle
#95. A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.
Dejan Stojanovic
#96. Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#98. He wanted to crumple her up and toss her from his mind like a scrap piece of paper filled with nonsensical doodles or dissonant words that formed unbalanced rhymes. Yet, he refused throw her away.
Emmie White
#99. 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
#100. My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.
J. Cole
