Quotes by Lester Bangs

Lester Bangs

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it’s true: anybody can do it.

Art

Rock And Roll

Rocks

… the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James “nobody understands me” Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy … [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.

Hate

Hero

Thinking

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

Glimpse

Rocks

World

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

Block

Hero

Stupid

A young woman is dead. I don’t care. You probably don’t care. The police don’t care. The papers don’t care. The punks for the most part don’t care. The only people that care are (I suppose) her parents and (I’m almost certain) the boy accused of murdering her.

Boys

Parent

People

All blues singers are great liars.

Great Liar

Liars

Singers

All humans are the same sex, except albinos.

Humans

Sex

All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the “fifties” or “sixties,” as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.

Arbitrary

Book

Falsification

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

Drug

Historical

People

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.

Dream

Fashion

People

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Acoustics

Agree

Air

Always Believe

Answers

Anxiety

Arbitrary

Arise

Art

Artist

Asking

Attitude

Beautiful

Block

Book

Boys

Business

Buttons

Cages

Care

Children

Clash

College

Contempt

Country

Couple

Culture

Dies

Different

Doe

Dog

Dream

Drug

Facts

Fake

Falsification

Fashion

Firsts

Form

Funeral

Girl

Glimpse

Grateful

Great Liar

Great Things

Groups

Guarantees

Hands

Hate

Hero

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Quotes by Lester Bangs

Lester Bangs

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it’s true: anybody can do it.

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

A young woman is dead. I don’t care. You probably don’t care. The police don’t care. The papers don’t care. The punks for the most part don’t care. The only people that care are (I suppose) her parents and (I’m almost certain) the boy accused of murdering her.

All blues singers are great liars.

All humans are the same sex, except albinos.

All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the “fifties” or “sixties,” as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

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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