"They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible,……" — Lester Bangs
"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 which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again."
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43 Quotes by Lester Bangs
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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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