Lester Bangs Quotes

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

Lester Bangs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 14, 1948 - April 30, 1982

Topics

RootsStartWaveAmericaNewGrass

I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.

Jesse Eisenberg

GoodAttitudeTimeEndBadGoing

My sister and I are really close. She's my little sister.

Jenny Han

SisterSheLittleCloseReally

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.

John Jay Chapman

DogLoveHatePeoplePhilosophy

You do not know, and the readers cannot tell you, what they might like until they have it. It is one of those things that particularly if you want to be the next wave, well the next wave is not already on the bestseller lists. The next wave is in somebody's head.

Stephanie Laurens

WaveYouKnowWantTellHead

Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.

Stewart Butterfield

BadVirtueCompanyBoundariesEmail

'That '70s Show' was one of the highlights of my life. I didn't expect to be on it as long as I was.

Tommy Chong

LifeMy LifeLongExpectShow

We will win the hearts and minds of the American people with an agenda for a stronger and more prosperous America.

Mike Pence

PeopleWinAmericanAmericaStronger

What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what's really happening to people's lives.

Molly Ivins

PoliticsEmpathyPeoplePolitical

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

Miuccia Prada

LifeWorkArtMeRealityJust

The Egyptians have grown in confidence, they've tasted freedom, and there's no way back.

Mohamed ElBaradei

ConfidenceFreedomBackWayGrown

Pop was great fun.

Delta Goodrem

GreatFunPopGreat Fun

I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees.

Cornelia Parker

ChildBuildingTreesMudOutsideUp

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