Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.
A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first place and apprehensive of playing without dots. Music theory does not help here; it teaches rules of the grammar, but not what to say. When people ask me how to improvise, only a little of what I can say is about music. The real story is about spontaneous expression, and it is therefore a spiritual and a psychological story rather than a story about the technique of one art form or another.
Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient.
If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.
scales are the grammar of music.
We have in our head something called story grammar. We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions. . . In our serious society, storytelling is seen as being soft. But people process the world through story.
My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.
I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.
I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since.
Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.
I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.
Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.