Quotes by : Lester Bangs

I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own,....

They're events you remember all your life, like your first real orgasm. And the whole purpose of the....

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

if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed....

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.....

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now,....

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in....

It's not enough just to do those things anymore; what you must do instead if you want success on any....