Quote by Lester Bangs
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. -

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

Other quotes by 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

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

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Future
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Its 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

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Politics
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Entertainment
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The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. – Kin Hubbard

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Entertainment

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course. – Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

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Entertainment

The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. – Gerald Early

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Entertainment

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse. – Anita Loos

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Entertainment

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We are what make up society. – Tom Shadyac

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Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People dont always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. – Caroline Kennedy

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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. – Claude Monet

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I dont like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isnt of much value. Life hasnt revealed its beauty to them. – Boris Pasternak

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