"You cannot make friends with the rock stars."
A great line in the film Almost Famous from Lester Bangs on rock journalism:
"You cannot make friends with the rock stars. That's what's important. If you're a rock journalist: first, you will never get paid much. But you will get free records from the record company. And they'll buy you drinks, you'll meet girls, they'll try to fly you places for free, offer you drugs... I know. It sounds great. But they are not your friends. These are people who want you to write sanctimonious stories about the genius of the rock stars, and they will ruin rock and roll and strangle everything we love about it."
That pretty much applies to any market/industry/community/entity; just replace [rock stars] & [rock and roll].
Quotations , chattanooga | By Josiah Roe | 11:51 AM
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Great movie, full of great lines. Almost Famous.
Posted by: Steven Kent at October 23, 2009 3:49 PM
