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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

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I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

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I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

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Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.

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The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

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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.

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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.

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The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: December 14th, 1948

Died: April 30th, 1982

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