Spoken Word Quotes - Page 3

• Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mind, Different, Way

  "Neil Gaiman Brings A Multimedia Extravaganza To Carnegie Hall". kunr.org. June 25, 2014.

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• Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

  Aristotle

  Character, Mind, Three

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• The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Space

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.155, University of Toronto Press

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• I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on words, that is, in which the present feeling and thought of the teaching mind break into natural and forceful expression.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Teaching, Believe, Expression

  Richard Salter Storrs (1875). “Conditions of success in preaching without notes, 3 lects”, p.61

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• 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

  Able, Nuance, Understand Me

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• High school was the first time I ever saw spoken word poetry. The first place I ever performed a poem was at my school, so in some ways it was the nucleus of how it all started. For me I think high school was a period of trying to figure myself out, and poetry was one of the ways I did that, and was a very helpful avenue to try to do that.

  Phil Kay

  School, Thinking, Trying

  Source: saseye.com

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• This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.

  Sonja Sohn

  New York, Moving, Careers

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• When you are writing a spoken word poem, the tools you're working with are your voice, your body, how it's going to sound to someone when you're saying it out loud. Which is different from when you're writing it on the page. That toolbox becomes how does this look visually on the page, how does this read among pages, how is this in relation to poems that are before it or after it. I don't think one is better or more successful than the other. You've just gotta think about "what are the tools I'm using, and how are they most effective in this form?"

  Phil Kay

  Writing, Successful, Thinking

  Source: saseye.com

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• Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.

  Will Hermes

  Hero, Dark, Voice

  "A Surprising Record From Gil Scott Heron". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 11, 2010.

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• The unspoken word never does harm.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Silence, Doe, Unspoken Words

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• Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

  Spoken Reasons

  Art, People, Perfect

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• All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Color, Roots, Pieces

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there was spoken word; and people left feeling so inspired and so energised. We have to get ourselves out of this syndrome of trauma and being re-traumatised. Art releases this energy. It exposes us to wonder again, and magic again, and ambiguity - all the things we need to really keep going and fighting and resisting in these times.

  Eve Ensler

  Song, Art, Fighting

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

  Laurie Notaro

  Running, Reading, Stories

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• The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely clapped...in retrospect the poem was terrible. And for a while I thought this was something I would never do again. And then I realized that, in my 17-year-old head, that was the worst it could have been. And it wasn't that bad - [because] from there, it could only get better. And I think that failure kind of freed me up to explore and not be afraid of failing again.

  Phil Kay

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: saseye.com

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• When we try to describe one person to another …, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he wore, only occasionally how he managed his job—no, what we tell is what he said and, if we are good mimics, how he said it. We apparently consider a person's spoken words the true essence of his being.

  Cleanth Brooks

  Jobs, Essence, Trying

  Cleanth Brooks (2007). “The Language of the American South”, p.33, University of Georgia Press

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• At the end of the day I see myself as a communicator. So any way that I can, any medium, any art form that I can use to communicate the truths of the Lord and scripture and my passion, then I'm going to do it. I don't know, I may do a spoken word piece one day, or I may turnaround and try to write a short story. I don't know, it just depends, but anything artistically that I can use I'll try to do it.

  Tedashii

  Art, Writing, Passion

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• Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Stars, Communication, Philosophical

  "Book of Disquietude".

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• Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real. They come, we imagine, directly to us without human meddling, and they are the most effortless food for the mind conceivable.

  Walter Lippmann

  Real, Printed Word, Yesterday

  "Public Opinion". Book by Walter Lippmann, 1922.

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• Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses.

  Angie Brown

  Thinking, Missing, Singing

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• Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Piercings

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• Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

  Gautama Buddha

  Good Luck, Best Of Luck, Luck And Skill

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• This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.

  Alistair Maclean

  Country, Looks, Said

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• As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

  Athol Fugard

  People, Theatre, Fascination

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• Just remember, the language of gesture is more effective than the spoken word. Body language is very powerful. Bring the balance within you and project that balance.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Powerful, Communication, Balance

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