In verse one can
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular. Ezra Pound
Rhyme
One discards rhyme, not
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns. Ezra Pound
I don’t write down
I don’t write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That’s how I write songs. I’ll need a line and I’ll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything. Evan Dando
I don’t sing melodically.
I don’t sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that’s what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music. Erykah Badu
When you start talking
When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you’re thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don’t know, do I know what I don’t know I don’t know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll – like nursery rhyme. Errol Morris
Kat and Kropp get
Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hour’s worth of drill (occasioned by Tjaden’s not saluting a major properly). Kat believes the war would be over if leaders gave all the participants “the same grub and the same pay,” as he says in a rhyme. Kropp believes … Read more
With every song, all
With every song, all the elements have to work. First, the beat has to be great – you start there. You start with the music, and then the ideas follow. Then you start thinking of rhymes, and then you record it, and sometimes – this happens to me a lot – it doesn’t come out … Read more
A lot of my
A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I’m joking and when I’m serious. Eminem
My songs can make
My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the same rhyme Eminem
When I do something
When I do something I have to do it all the way – that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That’s how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is … Read more