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Lester Bangs quotes: Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

Lester Bangs quotes: Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

Lester Bangs quotes: The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.

The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.

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

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

Lester Bangs quotes: I've always believed the New Left is rank.

I've always believed the New Left is rank.

Lester Bangs quotes: The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

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

Lester Bangs quotes: A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

Lester Bangs quotes: No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.

No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.

Lester Bangs quotes: I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

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

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

Lester Bangs quotes: (Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

Lester Bangs quotes: The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

Lester Bangs quotes: All humans are the same sex, except albinos.

All humans are the same sex, except albinos.

Lester Bangs quotes: Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

Lester Bangs quotes: The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

Lester Bangs quotes: I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.

I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.

Lester Bangs quotes: Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

Lester Bangs quotes: Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

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

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

Lester Bangs quotes: All blues singers are great liars.

All blues singers are great liars.

Lester Bangs quotes: The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

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

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