The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. – 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
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. – Lester Bangs
As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. – Lester Bangs
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. – James Thurber
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
If a guy is skilled at anything, thats attractive. Theres something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. Its really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done. – Danica McKellar