Lester Bangs

I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to…

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I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.

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“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now,…

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Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything…

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The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

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I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

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“Look at it this way: there are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid…

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“Art", "Bop" and "rock and roll" and whatever is all just a joke and a mistake, just a hunka foolishness so stop…

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Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I…

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No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.

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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…

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Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the…

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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…

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The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

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“But since death is inevitable we don’t have to deal with it (it’ll deal with us when it decides to). What we…

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I've always believed the New Left is rank.

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The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups…

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The extravagant and ostentatious lifestyles that pass for charisma in a time when almost anybody talks about charisma but if you think…

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John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on…

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“if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my…

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The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance…

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I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about…

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Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

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Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of…

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Good rock 'n' roll is something that makes you feel alive. It's something that's human, and I think that most music today…

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