Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
– Lester Bangs
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
– Lester Bangs
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
– Lester Bangs
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.
– Lester Bangs
It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.
– Lester Bangs
As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.