Lester Bangs Quotes
O.K., I'm a rock critic. I also write and record music. I write poetry, fiction, straight journalism, unstraight journalism, beatnik drivel, mortifying love letters, death threats to white jazz critics signed 'The Mau Maus of East Harlem,' and once a year my own obituary (latest entry: 'He was promising...').
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.
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The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.
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I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.
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I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.
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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
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O.K., I'm a rock critic. I also write and record music. I write poetry, fiction, straight journalism, unstraight journalism, beatnik drivel, mortifying love letters, death threats to white jazz critics signed 'The Mau Maus of East Harlem,' and once a year my own obituary (latest entry: 'He was promising...').
