"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."

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

James Fenton

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“Barbieâ€™s disfigured. Itâ€™s fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.”
“(When asked what a director does) I help.”
“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”
“Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.”
“Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting with 'Three's Company' and Miss Abigail's Guide Star Joyce DeWitt". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. June 17, 2011.
“Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.”
“Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.”

Source : Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”
“Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.”

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