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I always like spoken word records.
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
I like spoken-word as much as the singing word.
The written word endures, the spoken word disappears
Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.
It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.
Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.
I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.
Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.
What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word.
The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds
Like it or not, liberal radio hosts fail miserably in the spoken word format.
There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.
The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.
It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
There are some people in this world who always turn and twist the spoken word out of proportion.
All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.
I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.
I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book.
The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.
In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
I kind of got popular as a spoken word artist, and I ended up doing some ads and audio stuff for Nike and Sprite.
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.
I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.
If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.
I'm not going to do an album. There's enough horrible drag queens singing - especially when they do that spoken word over music, 'I'm fierce! I'm fierce!'
While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.
Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.
I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself a spoken word poet.
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
There was something about stand-up that music wouldn't give me, which was my love of the spoken word and the mercurial tendency of language to respond to what happens to you.
My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much into the head-bobbing vibe with sophisticated lyrics.
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.
I wanted to do 'Manzanar' because I'd never done anything like it before. The spoken word there is between a drama and an essay, and I'd never worked in concert with an orchestra.
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.
I won the speech competition in class, and I always say this was my first 'spoken word performance.' It was the first time I got on stage and recited something. I fell in love with the stage at the age of 12.
Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.