"The first mistake of art is to assume…" — Lester Bangs
"The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious."
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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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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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I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own,…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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