Device/music

Famous quotes containing the words device and/or music:

“Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

“The music is in minors.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)