I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to do whatever… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis. — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
“Look at it this way: there are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
“Art", "Bop" and "rock and roll" and whatever is all just a joke and a mistake, just a hunka foolishness so stop treating it… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything. — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
A young woman is dead. I don’t care. You probably don’t care. The police don’t care. The papers don’t care. The punks for the… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates. — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
