Quotes by Lester Bangs

37 quotes by Lester Bangs

Lester Bangs - american Critic

Life period: 1948-1982

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

All I see is a lot of groups that are recycling a lot of 60's stuff that has been recycled once too often anyway.

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.

Quote by Lester Bangs about use, moral, word, good, good luck

And I'm sorry I just really have to question a lot of these New Wave people that say what they're doing is so radically new and so different. Cause I really don't see it.

Quote by Lester Bangs about question, people

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.

Quote by Lester Bangs about drugs, conscience, society, use, things, people

Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.

Quote by Lester Bangs about smoke, things

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

But as far as this stuff being really new, really different that's something else again. Even the Sex Pistols were playing old Chuck Berry licks.

Quote by Lester Bangs about old, olderness, sex, being

But, like The New Barbarians charge $12. 50 a ticket for a show that Ron Wood came out and had a music stand in front of him while he was playing. That's how under rehearsed they were.

Quote by Lester Bangs about music

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in...

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

Quote by Lester Bangs about companies, man

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

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Quote by Lester Bangs about eternity, future, art, magic, work, time

Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.

Quote by Lester Bangs about television

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

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

Quote by Lester Bangs about music

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

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

Quote by Lester Bangs about hate

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

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.

Quote by Lester Bangs about capitalism, rocks

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.

Quote by Lester Bangs about couple, things

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.

Quote by Lester Bangs about things

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.

Quote by Lester Bangs about things

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.

In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care.

Quote by Lester Bangs about interest, being, time

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.

Quote by Lester Bangs about air, politics, things

It's the major changes in the other industries, it's the...

It's the major changes in the other industries, it's the change in the economy- it's obviously got to effect our whole culture.

Quote by Lester Bangs about economy, culture, change

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