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Lester Bangs

"Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on the way out. What we have instead is a small island of new free music surrounded by some good reworkings of past idioms and a vast sargasso sea of absolute garbage."

Source : Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.74, Anchor

Lester Bangs

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“That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.160, Modern Library
“When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.”
“People don't necessarily want to step away from what they think they know of you. Getting to know this whole other persona and all of the things that come along with that, it can be confusing for people.”
“We have the mentality of the hunter. We want to be the most enthusiastic team in the country. That's what we can control”
“Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot and corruption of capitalist exploitation. Churches the illusion of sacred sanctuary of purposes of pacifying social discontent. Courtrooms of course designed to promote the illusion of solemn justice. If there was true justice why would such trappings be necessary? Wouldn't a table and chairs and an ordinary room serve just as well?”
“Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions”
“Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets,”
“We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.”

Source : "Me and my travels". Interview with Jon Bennett, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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