All Lester Bangs Quotes
- They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth,… Besides
- 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 most… Accused
- Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you. Chooses
- All blues singers are great liars. All
- Good rock 'n' roll is something that makes you feel alive. It's something that's human, and I think that most music today isn't. ... To… Alive
- Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed. Eternally
- The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that. Answers
- The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll. Group
- Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form. Comes Back
- In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us… All
- I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music. Any
- The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming… All
- 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… Albums
- 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… Coming
- 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 just… Ask
- Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing… Approaching
- Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain. Feeling
- Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. Art
- No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything. Groups
- 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… Confused