"In fact I think now we've reached a……" — Lester Bangs
"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 being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care."
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43 Quotes by Lester Bangs
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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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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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The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
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The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
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