Andy Grammer Quotes

The words I overuse are all adverbs.

I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently... Shucks, I'll have to work on that.

I overuse words. My kids catch me saying stuff. They're like, 'Hey, you say that all the time.' 'Boom' is one of those things.

I have some bad feet. But really, my main fault would probably be my personality. A lot of times, I am not serious enough. I joke around too much sometimes.

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

I was a pretty terrible lawyer. A really, really terrible lawyer.

People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.

People talk in ungrammatical, unwriterly ways.

Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock.

I'm a basket case. Yeah, you know, I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.

When I thought I couldn't write recipes, my boss at the time advised, 'Write as you talk.'

Guys say 'like' all the time, and no one notices it.

Weirdly, I didn't even know that I said 'yah' all the time.

I don't like when I say 'honestly' - not to imply that I'm otherwise not honest.

The reason my management get upset with me the most is that they don't know what's going to come out my mouth.

China, I didn't take it seriously; it was a lack of professionalism. They delayed to send us a written offer - It was a disaster.

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

I have tons of stuff that, you know, seems like it's a well-constructed sentence but it is not how people talk, it's how people write. So that's why I think it's sometimes easier for me to write for actors 'cause I know what's frustrating about, you know, sentences that come out just perfect. Well, who talks like that? And who of us don't overlap each other? Except on the radio, hopefully.

Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat. “What do you mean?” he said. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

Listen: People are always saying, 'Rickey says Rickey.' But it's been blown way out of proportion. People might catch me, when they know I'm ticked off, saying, 'Rickey, what the heck are you doing, Rickey?' They say, 'Darn, Rickey, what are you saying Rickey for? Why don't you just say, 'I?' But I never did. I always said, 'Rickey,' and it become something for people to joke about.

I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.

Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.