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In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care.
It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.
Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.
No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.
No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.
Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.
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.
That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.
The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
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