Quotes of Lester Bangs - somelinesforyou

“ I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this. ”

- Lester Bangs

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

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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 whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. ”

- Lester Bangs

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

- Lester Bangs

“ Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this. ”

- Lester Bangs

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

- Lester Bangs

“ And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that. ”

- Lester Bangs

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

- Lester Bangs

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

- Lester Bangs

“ The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ I have to see it much more as fundamentally capitalism, I certainly don't see any Rock'n'Roll coming out of Vietnam or China or Russia. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that. ”

- Lester Bangs
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