Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for … - Lester Bangs

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[ISIS] are actively recruiting Americans. The attacker in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. He was a health inspector; had a newborn child and left all that behind to kill 14 people.

Lester Bangs

Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.

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They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.

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

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

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Good rock 'n' roll is something that makes you feel alive. It's something that's human, and I think that most music today isn't. . . . To me good rock 'n' roll also encompasses other things, like Hank Williams and Charlie Mingus and a lot of things that aren't strictly defined as rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock 'n' roll, or a movie can be rock 'n' roll. It's a way of living your life.

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

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