Quotes by Lester Bangs

All I see is a lot of groups that are recycling a lot of 60s stuff that has been recycled once too often anyway. (Lester Bangs)

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 thats like basically good. (Lester Bangs)

And I'm sorry I just really have to question a lot of these New Wave people that say what they're doing is so radically new and so different. Cause I really don't see it. (Lester Bangs)

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. (Lester Bangs)

But as far as this stuff being really new, really different thats something else again. Even the Sex Pistols were playing old Chuck Berry licks. (Lester Bangs)

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

Here we are in the 70s when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know its just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse. (Lester Bangs)

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music. (Lester Bangs)

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)

Im really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, theres something inherently, even violent about it, its wild and raw and all this. (Lester Bangs)