The First Mistake Of Art Is To

The First Mistake Of Art Is To Assume That It's Serious.

The Only Questions Worth Asking Today Are Whether Humans Are Going To Have Any Emotions Tomorrow, And What The Quality Of Life Will Be If The Answer Is No.

Or Like In The Early 70's When We Had The Reaction Against Acid Rock And All The Fuzz Tone, And Feedback, And The Noise. And You Had James Taylor And Everyone Went Acoustic And That.

As Far As A Truly Radical Conscience, You Have To Take It As Part Of A Larger Thing, That It Was Sort Of Historical Inevitability That With The Coming Of A Leaguer Society People Would Start To Use Drugs A Lot More Then They Had Before.

... 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.