Quotes about Things, page 3

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 things

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 things

Magical realism is based on magical magic, that is, the happening of things that cannot be explained by the characters and are not explained by the author.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about things

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 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

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 things

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about things

That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

Quote by Lester Bangs about things

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

Quote by Lester Bangs about things

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

Quote by Lester Bangs about things

Things do go in cycles so I never believe rock was really dead it was really finished or had it, it just comes back in a different form.

Quote by Lester Bangs about things

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

Quote by Lester Bangs about things

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about things

If they say, Paula is going crazy, the reason is, Simon is whispering things in my ear, like, What's the price of beans? Things that make no sense at all.

Quote by Paula Abdul about things

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

Quote by Richard Bach about things

The simplest things are often the truest.

Quote by Richard Bach about things

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about things

If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and...

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about things

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about things