Lester Bangs Quotes - Page 2

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• I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.

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  Guarantees, Agree, One Thing

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.306, Anchor

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• All humans are the same sex, except albinos.

  Lester Bangs

  Sex, Humans

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

  Lester Bangs

  Answers, Great Things, Clash

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art's sake, corny as that sounds.

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  Art, Real, Writing

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• I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to do whatever they wanted with this legendary body for one afternoon, at least 75 percent of the guys in the country would elect to beat her up.

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  Girl, Country, Men

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• 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.

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  Teenager, Thinking, Uprising

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Boys, People, Parent

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• 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

  Rocks, Noise, Acoustics

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Couple, Mean, Independent

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always believed the New Left is rank.

  Lester Bangs

  Always Believe, Left

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• 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.

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  People, Drug, Historical

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The extravagant and ostentatious lifestyles that pass for charisma in a time when almost anybody talks about charisma but if you think about it there's precious little to be seen.

  Lester Bangs

  Thinking, Littles, Lifestyle

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.108, Anchor

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• 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.

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  Strong, Real, Personality

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected.

  Lester Bangs

  Artist, Fake, Roles

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.110, Anchor

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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.

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  Travel, Mean, Journey

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All blues singers are great liars.

  Lester Bangs

  Liars, Singers, Great Liar

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

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  Rocks, Glimpse, World

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• The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

  Lester Bangs

  Rocks, Groups, Rock N Roll

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• 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

  Hands, Violent, Schizophrenic

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates.

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  Understanding, May, Reign

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.306, Anchor

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

  Lester Bangs

  Popular Music, Particular

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Book, Arbitrary, Falsification

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.442, Anchor

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• John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

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  Grateful, Way, Cages

  "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" by Lester Bangs, edited by Greil Marcus, Random House/Vintage Books, (p. 299), 1988.

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• 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.

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  Children, Mean, Kids

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Air, Hands, Buttons

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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