Lester Bangs Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: December 13, 1948 - April 30, 1982
Birthday: December 13
Death: April 30
... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.
topic: Hate, Hero, Thinking, Wild One, Vehement, Antiheroes, Nobody Understands Me
