Spoken Word Quotes

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word.

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.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 like spoken-word as much as the singing word.

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

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.