Lester Bangs American Critic Quotations

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.

Things do go in cycles so I never believe rock was really dead it was really finished or had it, it just comes back in a different form.