Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain. Lester Bangs More Quotes by Lester Bangs More Quotes From Lester Bangs 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 strong real personality Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form. Lester Bangs dies form different 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. Lester Bangs knowing mean thinking What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected. Lester Bangs fake roles artist 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 journey mean travel A young woman is dead. I don’t care. You probably don’t care. The police don’t care. The papers don’t care. The punks for the most part don’t care. The only people that care are (I suppose) her parents and (I’m almost certain) the boy accused of murdering her. Lester Bangs parent boys people 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. Lester Bangs falsification arbitrary book I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. Lester Bangs playing-jazz stanley hate (Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world. Lester Bangs glimpse rocks world . . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it. Lester Bangs rock-and-roll rocks art I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music. Lester Bangs popular-music particular I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this. Lester Bangs schizophrenic violent hands Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. Lester Bangs future work time art No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything. Lester Bangs i-see meaning see moment No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse. Lester Bangs worse like think country 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. Lester Bangs feeling you society people Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse. Lester Bangs you ugly media evil 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. Lester Bangs words yourself good you