Lester Bangs Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.”

“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.”

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

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

“No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.”

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

“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.”

“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.”