Lester Bangs Quotes About Art

• The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

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  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.115, Anchor

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• I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.

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  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.331, Anchor

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• The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art's sake, corny as that sounds.

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• if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my life-then what good is this music going to prove to be? what does that say about us? what are we confirming in ourselves by doting on art that is emotionally neutral? and, simultaneously, what in ourselves might we be destroying or at least keeping down?

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  Lester Bangs (2008). “Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader”, p.111, Anchor

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• . . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

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  Lester Bangs (1980). “Blondie”, Touchstone

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