Lester Bangs

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music. 

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. 

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

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. 

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. 

" the war is over, they won and they will ruin rock n' roll and strangle everything we love about it"