List of Lester Bangs Quotes

I Hate Stanley Clark, But I Have To Admit He's Playing Jazz Whether I Like It Or Not.

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.

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.

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.

Corporations Are Social Organizations, The Theater In Which Men And Women Realize Or Fail To Realize Purposeful And Productive Lives.

Sexual Chaos Reigns Currently, But Out Of Chaos May Flow True Understanding And Harmony, And Either Way Elvis Almost Singlehandedly Opened The Floodgates.

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.

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.

The Mekons Are The Most Revolutionary Group In The History Of Rock 'n' Roll.

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.

I Don't See That There Are Any Particular Changes In Popular Music.

All Blues Singers Are Great Liars.