Writing Quotes by Lester Bangs

Lester Bangs

Good rock ‘n’ roll is something that makes you feel alive. It’s something that’s human, and I think that most music today isn’t. … To me good rock ‘n’ roll also encompasses other things, like Hank Williams and Charlie Mingus and a lot of things that aren’t strictly defined as rock ‘n’ roll. Rock ‘n’ roll is an attitude, it’s not a musical form of a strict sort. It’s a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock ‘n’ roll, or a movie can be rock ‘n’ roll. It’s a way of living your life.

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Lester Bangs

I’ll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette.

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Lester Bangs

Rock’n’roll is an attitude, it’s not a musical form of a strict sort. It’s way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock’n’roll, or a movie can be rock’n’roll. It’s a way of living your life.

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The real question is what to live for. And I can’t answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art’s sake, corny as that sounds.

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