Lester Bangs Quotes

The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.

Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!

Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.

Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

Creating and sharing beautiful things has provided me with the inspiration that we can do things we never thought we could do and that we will get to see wonderful things we never thought we would see.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

How would you like to feel the way she looks?

Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect.

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.

Beautiful things like nature inspire me. Sunrise is my favorite time of the day. A sky full of stars can be very inspiring. Quiet moments where you're alone with yourself and the beauty, nature, and majesty that God has created. That is pretty inspiring.

Madonna looked amazing. I can't believe she's 89 and looks like that.

It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.

The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

Make something beautiful of your life.