Style Is Originality; Fashion Is

The Ultimate Sin Of Any Performer Is Contempt For The Audience.

Don’t Ask Me Why I Obsessively Look To Rock ’n’ Roll Bands For Some Kind Of Model For A Better Society. I Guess It’s Just That I Glimpsed Something Beautiful In A Flashbulb Moment Once, And Perhaps Mistaking It For Prophecy Have Been Seeking Its Fulfillment Ever Since.

Sexual Chaos Reigns Currently, But Out Of Chaos May Flow True Understanding And Harmony, And Either Way Elvis Almost Singlehandedly Opened The Floodgates.

What All This Posturing And Fake Glamor Results In Is A Vast Detachment And Cynicism On The Part Of The Artists. Since It's Impossible To Have Respect For An Audience That'll Take Just About Anything You Care To Dish Out, And The Impassive Demeanor Is So Central To The Role, A General Numbnose Is All That Can Be Expected.

... 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.