The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. – Lester Bangs
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. – Lester Bangs
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. – Lester Bangs
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. – Lester Bangs
The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no. – 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
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