"At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental……" — Lester Bangs
"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 want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides."
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43 Quotes by Lester Bangs
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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…
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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
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I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.
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Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to…
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I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these…
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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…
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
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Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and…
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That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like…
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The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
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I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the…
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The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
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