Eric Ludy Quotes

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.

Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements.

If people are telling you that they don't believe what you're doing, that means you're doing something out of their comfort zone. And generally, people don't want to be taken out of their comfort zone because it's outside of the status quo.

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

I love challenging the status quo.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

You know, I think Jesus was famous and also in a lot of trouble because he always chose people over sort of established procedures.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

Changes do occur often with such suddenness in ways not foreseen except by isolated thinkers far removed from the consensus of their day.

I don't think we ought to base our policy on what the conventional wisdom is.... The conventional wisdom usually is wrong.

If Jesus Christ had taken a poll, he would never have preached the gospel.

Some people think I'm a terrible radical, but really I'm not so very dangerous at all.

The mainstream is always under attack.

I can't live in a world of dullards. So I think on that level, I'm definitely punk.

I feel like I'm just built differently.

Nobody is going to just come and give you money unless you've proven yourself, especially if you're doing something that is unconventional or unorthodox and outside the way the industry thinks.

More Than' challenges every norm, refuses to accept the rules as they are, one-size-fits-all, and most importantly, 'More Than' implores you to take massive risk.

I think there's something important in going against the grain and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.