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Lester Bangs

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


— Lester Bangs


#assume #first #mistake #serious

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


— Lester Bangs


#fail #lives #men #men and women #organizations

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


— Lester Bangs


#comes #dies #different #ever #form

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.


— Lester Bangs


#america #anymore #bands #garage #grass

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


— Lester Bangs


#changes #i #music #particular #popular

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.


— Lester Bangs


#distinct #find #groups #had #i

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


— Lester Bangs


#eternity #every #faces #future #great

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


— Lester Bangs


#clark #hate #i #jazz #like

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.


— Lester Bangs


#apart #because #demonstration #easier #fell

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.


— Lester Bangs


#england #happened #i #i think #interesting






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Bangs is mentioned ("Hangin' out with Lester Bangs you all") in the Ramones song "It's Not My Place (In the 9 to 5 World)" on the album Pleasant Dreams. Next year he traveled to Austin Texas and met a punk rock group named The Delinquents. (ISBN 0-679-72045-6)
Main Lines Blood Feasts and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader collected writings John Morthland ed.

He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and was known for his leading influence in rock music criticism. Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs (December 13 1948 – April 30 1982) was an American music journalist author and musician.

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