"I was never really sold on the idea of doing a straight tour film of the Stones," David Maysles said. "What we actually have is a mystery story, you realize. A detective story, sort of"
"Lester ennobled the ludicrous inner life of pop fans by telling the truth about it — by discerning that inner lives, and not music, were what pop music was about"
“If anyone had told me in 1969 that George Clinton and Al Green would be two of my three favorite rock and rollers of the ’70s my only response would have been ‘Who?’ Which is why I’m not going to try and foretell the future now.”
“Maybe the best that can be said of jazz in the ’70s is that it didn’t just survive. It established its own precedents and raised important questions about an art that was finally pushed beyond its golden age.”
“Four people from the throng died violently, three of them by violent accident. The fourth, a still-nameless black man, was kicked and stabbed to death.”
“I’m jumpin’ around and crawlin’ on the floor and realizin’ shit I’m better than those idiots up there. So I sez, ‘Hey if they can do it we can do it, right guys?’ ‘Right!’ ”
“When I first saw the Ramones I said, ‘This is the best band in the world.’ I went up to them after the set and ‘You
guys are great! You guys are great!’ That’s all I could say.”
The Clash and the Pistols have established social realism as an essential part of punk ideology, but this does not make their music the “direct expression of the contemporary working class.”
