On popularity:
You'll meet them all again on your long journey to the middle.
On The Music of America:
Here's a theory for you to disregard completely: Music, true music, it chooses you...from the vast, scenic bridges of your brain and angelic choirs...it's a place apart from the lap of America.
On real Buffoons:
The Doors by Jim Morrison? He's a drunken buffoon posing as a poet- give me the Guess Who- they have the courage to be drunken buffoons which makes them poetic.
On accomplishments:
The Letter by The Box Tops, it takes them one minute and fifty-eight seconds, less than two minutes to accomplish what takes Jethro Tull hours to Not accomplish.
On Rock Journalism:
It's an industry of cool...what passes for rock these days, silence is more compelling.
Quotes by Lester Bangs as represented by director Cameron Crowe in his motion picture
Almost Famous (bootleg cut)
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Lester Bangs was a real chap, and one of the more influential early critics of what we now call (rather inappropriately) rock music. One of his most famous pieces was his almost-encyclopedic discussion of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, which you can find here. It might help in providing a new way 'reading' lyrics/poetry in terms of one's own pre-critical experiences. Cheers.
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