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• Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long.
  Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!

  GZA

  Song, Strong, Rap

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• Ayo, shout out to Mobb Deep, the Extra P
  Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don't sleep

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Sleep, Hip Hop

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• See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God.
  Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.

  Lord Finesse

  Rap, Hip Hop, Mind

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• 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

  Rap, Dope, Hip Hop

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• People say, 'Grimm, you've been shot like 50.
  So why don't you just rhyme like 50?
  Then, you could get the money like 50,
  Otherwise, before you see success...you'll be 50.'

  MF Grimm

  Rap, People, Hip Hop

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• 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

  Rap, Writing, Years

  Song: Move the Crowd

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• Curse us eh/I'll make you pay!/I don't want to rhyme all day!

  Rick Riordan

  Want, Pay, Curse

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• I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

  Knut Hamsun

  Life And Death, Umbrella, Eternal

  Knut Hamsun (2011). “Mysteries”, p.35, Souvenir Press

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• 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

  Echoes, Lines, Favors

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

  Jim Capaldi

  Bridges, Giving, Shapes

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• I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

  Anne Stevenson

  Memorable, Ideas, Giving

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

  Missy Elliot

  Mean, Rhyming, Mines

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• 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

  Song, Dark, Thinking

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• Thanks for the joy that you're givin' me
  I want you to know I believe in your song
  Rhythm and rhyme and harmony
  You help me along, makin' me strong,
  Give me the beat boys and free my soul
  I wanna get lost in your rock n' roll
  And drift away . . .

  Dobie Gray

  Song, Strong, Believe

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• 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

  Ideas, Numbers, Splits

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• I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

  Thom Gunn

  Rhyming, Way, Meter

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• A rhyme doesn't make a song.

  Dorothy Fields

  Song, Rhyming

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• Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Children, Rhyming, Combination

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• Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

  Joanna Newsom

  Ideas, Different, Delight

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Numbers, Down And, Rhyming

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• Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

  Robert Frost

  Vocabulary, Discipline, Delight

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• If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Events, Reason

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• Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Time, Epic, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.187

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• In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

  James Fenton

  Rap, Lows, Cases

  "It ain't necessarily so" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2002.

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• Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.

  Terry Eagleton

  Evil, Reason, Supposed To Be

  Terry Eagleton (2010). “On Evil”, p.3, Yale University Press

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