Lester Bangs

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