"Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures."

-- Dan Sperber

#Art Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.”
“A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.”
“I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests.”

Source : "Freedom Isn’t Free" by Richard Trumka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.
“All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps”
“I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star.”
“Victor Wooten is the Carlos Castaneda of music”
“The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.”
“No one ever gets to see Foley artists at work, and they're so strange. They see the world differently: things as things that might make sounds that sound like other things. They see the whole world that way - like when you're a house painter, all you see is a bunch of houses that need painting.”

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