Lester Bangs Quotes

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• When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing…
• Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
• I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.
• Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button,…
• 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…
• I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild…
• It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist…
• Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And…
• That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On…
• The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
• I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in…
• The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
• I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic…
• A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your…
• All humans are the same sex, except albinos.
• The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to…
• Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on…
• Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one…
• At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they…
• The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if…

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