CREEMEDIA
"Apparently nobody ever bothered to inform nine-tenths of musicians that music is about feeling passion, love, anger, joy, fear, hope, lust, EMOTION DELIVERED AT ITS MOST POWERFUL AND DIRECT IN WHATEVER FORM, rather than whether you hit a clinker in that third bar there.
CREEMEDIA
GENIUS OF LOVE
PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG
Lester Bangs/Edited by Greil Marcus
by
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Bill Holdship
by
"Apparently nobody ever bothered to inform nine-tenths of musicians that music is about feeling passion, love, anger, joy, fear, hope, lust, EMOTION DELIVERED AT ITS MOST POWERFUL AND DIRECT IN WHATEVER FORM, rather than whether you hit a clinker in that third bar there. I frankly wouldn’t expect most musicians to be able to figure this out for themselves, as you’d think anybody could, because it is a fact that nine-tenths of the HUMAN RACE never have and never will think for themselves about anything. Whether it’s music or Reaganomics, say, almost everybody prefers to sit and wait till somebody who seems to have some kind of authority, even if it’s seldom too clear just where they got it, comes along and inform them one and all what their position on the matter should be. Then they all agree that this is gospel, and gang up to go persecute whatever minority might happen to disagree. This is the history of the human race, certainly the history of music... ”
—Lester Bangs, 1981