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At Its Best New Wave/punk Represents A Fundamental And Age-old Utopian Dream: That If You Give People The License To Be As Outrageous As They Want In Absolutely Any Fashion They Can Dream Up, They'll Be Creative About It, And Do Something Good Besides.

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.

As Far As A Truly Radical Conscience, You Have To Take It As Part Of A Larger Thing, That It Was Sort Of Historical Inevitability That With The Coming Of A Leaguer Society People Would Start To Use Drugs A Lot More Then They Had Before.

(punk Rock Is) Lunging After Some Glimpse Of A New And Better World.

All The Proliferating Falsifications Of What I And Everyone I Know Experienced Once In What It Is Now So Convenient To Call The "fifties" Or "sixties," As If Life Was Really Measured Or Lived In Arbitrary Decades, When The History Books Are Sold Like Comix.