Quotes Lester Bangs

All I see is a lot of groups that are recycling a lot of 60'...

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come...

And I'm sorry I just really have to question a lot of these ...

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as...

Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I s...

But as far as this stuff being really new, really different ...

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which ...

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own ti...

Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible a...

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

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz ...

I have to see it much more as fundamentally capitalism, I ce...

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think s...

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip t...

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something h...

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand...

In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the pow...

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake you...

Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty...

No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the...

No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because no...

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different f...

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against a...

That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally...

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious....