Charles Ludlam (Charles Braun Ludlam) Quotes

Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

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• Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Job
  • History

• Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Up
  • May
  • Help

• I've always wanted to make a record.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Make

• I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Always
  • Things
  • Magazines

• Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.

  

  Halsey
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Everything

• I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • God
  • Feeling

• We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Believe
  • Men
  • May

• My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Father

• The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • God
  • Help

• Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Great
  • Music
  • Soul

• I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Music
  • England
  • Legend

• It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.

  

  Eric San
  • Funny
  • Strange

• The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Irish
  • Joke
  • Seen

• My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Habit
  • Kitchen
  • Help Me

• Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

  

  Charles Ludlam
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime