Lester Bangs Quotes

Lester Bangs — American Critic born on December 14, 1948, died on April 30, 1982

Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs was an American music journalist, critic, author, and musician. Often cited during his lifetime as "America's Greatest Rock Critic", he wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and was known for his leading influence in rock music criticism... (wikipedia)

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

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

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

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

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.