Rhythmic Poetry Quotes

I'm kind of like a folk singer mixed with soul, but I feel like if you really are a lover of hip-hop music, make the beat banging as possible and then put the message in so that people get the honey with the medicine.

In the future, hip-hop is going to be called American folklore.

You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.

I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.

I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

Really, I listen to more hip hop probably than most other things. That's where I get a lot of my influence from because it's so eclectic. So that's what I love.

Rap is just to me very annoying.

I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

I grew up with bubble-gum rap. Seriously, in 2003, 2004, it was Chingy 'Right Thurr.'

We mix a lot of genres - soul, pop, jazz - but we most agree on hip-hop.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

Rap music was and is, for me, everything.

I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.

When I first started making music, I was pretty drawn to hip-hop beats wrapped together with super-good lyrics. The most important thing in that is wordplay, so that stayed with me when I started writing songs.

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.

Une danse est un poe' me. A dance is a poem.

The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.

Hip hop minus plugged sounds can be a very different experience.

Rap music was a savior to me.

Rap music's the only thing that ever mattered.

I thank God for Hip Hop because Marvin Gaye didn't have that and he was able to be that dope. For us to have that and more, I feel like it is up to us to be as dope as we can possibly be.

It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping.