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Lester Bangs Quotes
And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something thats like basically good. - Lester Bangs Quotes
As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. - Lester Bangs Quotes
Basically no, I mean I think that its very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing whats behind it, and what it really means. - Lester Bangs Quotes
But as far as this stuff being really new, really different thats something else again. Even the Sex Pistols were playing old Chuck Berry licks. - Lester Bangs Quotes
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. - Lester Bangs Quotes
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. - Lester Bangs Quotes
Here we are in the 70s when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know its just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse. - Lester Bangs Quotes
I dont see that there are any particular changes in popular music. - Lester Bangs Quotes
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit hes playing Jazz whether I like it or not. - Lester Bangs Quotes
I have to see it much more as fundamentally capitalism, I certainly dont see any RocknRoll coming out of Vietnam or China or Russia. - Lester Bangs Quotes
I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that. - Lester Bangs Quotes
I mean its easier to be in a demonstration if its a trip thats one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasnt a trip any longer. - Lester Bangs Quotes
I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden cant afford the ticket prices. - Lester Bangs Quotes
Im really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, theres something inherently, even violent about it, its wild and raw and all this. - Lester Bangs Quotes
In fact I think now weve reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we dont know whats going on, and we dont care. - Lester Bangs Quotes
Its much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics. - Lester Bangs Quotes
Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down. - Lester Bangs Quotes
No I dont think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like its going to get worse and worse. - Lester Bangs Quotes
No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything. - Lester Bangs Quotes
Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form. - Lester Bangs Quotes
Or like in the early 70s when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that. - Lester Bangs Quotes
Thats one reason why its pretty worthless, I cant totally buy it, if you think about it, its things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place. - Lester Bangs Quotes
The first mistake of art is to assume that its serious. - Lester Bangs Quotes
The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that. - Lester Bangs Quotes
The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I dont find most of the groups that are coming out now really do. - Lester Bangs Quotes
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. - Lester Bangs Quotes
Things do go in cycles so I never believe rock was really dead it was really finished or had it, it just comes back in a different form. - Lester Bangs Quotes
What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews. - Lester Bangs Quotes
When kids cant afford to see it anymore maybe well have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level. - Lester Bangs Quotes
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