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Here's that quote from Almost Famous attributed to Lester Bangs. I don't know how close it is to what he originally said, but knowing Cameron Crowe I would guess pretty accurate.
"Here's a theory for you to disregard completely. Music, you know, true music, not just rock 'n' roll, it chooses you. It lives in your car, or alone, listening to your headphones - you know, with the vast, scenic bridges and angelic choirs in your brain. It is a place apart from the vast, benign lap of America. Did you know that 'The Letter' by The Box Tops was a minute and 58 seconds long? Means nothing. Nil. But it takes them less than two minutes to accomplish what Jethro Tull takes hours not to accomplish. You see this? This is fatuous, psuedo blubber! You know . . . which is fine, but . . . to foist it off as art-- or the Doors? Jim Morrison? He's a drunken buffoon posing as a poet. Give me the Guess Who. Come on. They got the courage to be drunken buffoons, which makes them poetic! Yes? No! Live 'American Woman?' Have you ever -- the most BRILLANT piece of gobbledygook ever! Give me some 'White Light/White Heat.' Iggy Pop! AAAAAYMEN!"
"A 'D' is a 'D'." Beethoven
"A nickle is a nickle and dime is a dime." Robert Johnson
"The blues ain't nothin' but a good woman on your mind." Mississippi John Hurt
"I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white." Frank Zappa
"No pop artist, past or present, is particularly worthy of exaltation or condemnation, including Mozart or Bolton. They're all shmucks just like us." Anonymous
"If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state." Frank Zappa
"Jazz is not dead...it just smells funny." Frank Zappa
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistence of unsuspecting musicians." Frank Zappa
"A good composer does not imitate; he steals." Igor Stravinsky
"Composers shouldn't think too much. It interferes with their plagiarism." Howard Dietz
"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." Elvis Presley
"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down' " Bob Newhart
"Country music is three chords and the truth." Harlan Howard
" 'A' -- Good country key" Donald "Duck" Dunn
"It's easy to play any musical instrument. All you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself." J.S. Bach
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds." Mark Twain
"I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people." James Taylor
"Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains." Paul Whiteman
"As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll." Mick Shrimpton
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever." Davis St. Hubbins
"We're the Strange Loves, NOT the Strangeloves. Totally different." Lee Worley
""If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." George Bernard Shaw
"We have art to save ourselves from the truth." Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." G. B. Burgin
"Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera." James Stephens
"I'll sleep when I'm dead." Warren Zevon
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." Jean-Paul Sartre
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end." Igor Stravinsky
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." Voltaire
"Silence is argument carried out by other means." Ernesto"Che"Guevara
"Sometimes it's the notes that you DON'T play that matter." B.B. King
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
"I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on both counts, but I never noticed." B.B. King
"I'd rather be a musician than a rock star." George Harrison
"If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos." Jon Bon Jovi
"The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me." Alberta Hunter
"I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me." Richard Thompson
"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides." Artur Schnabel
"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley