A Hero Is A Goddam

John Lennon At His Best Despised Cheap Sentiment And Had To Learn The Hard Way That Once You've Made Your Mark On History Those Who Can't Will Be So Grateful They'll Turn It Into A Cage For You.

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.

Look At It This Way: There Are Many Here Among Us For Whom The Life Force Is Best Represented By The Livid Twitching Of One Tortured Nerve, Or Even A Full-scale Anxiety Attack. I Do Not Subscribe To This Point Of View 100 Percent, But I Understand It, Have Lived It. Thus The Shriek, The Caterwaul, The Chainsaw Gnarlgnashing, The Yowl And The Whizz That Decapitates May Be Reheard By The Adventurous Or Emotionally Damaged As Mellifluous Bursts Of Unarguable Affirmation.

They Wouldn't Be Heroes If They Were Infallible, In Fact They Wouldn't Be Heroes If They Weren't Miserable Wretched Dogs, The Pariahs Of The Earth, Besides Which The Only Reason To Build Up An Idol Is To Tear It Down Again.