| | Kill Your Idols: Foreword |
 | | In the rock world, the reason that alternative views are so frightening to conservative critics is that they require these cultural arbiters to keep listening and grant that maybe, just maybe, the best sounds ever are still to come, instead of being forever embalmed in the amber of the past. |
 | | The only valid response that any true rock fan should have to some pompous, omniscient windbag standing at the front of the class prattling on about “the true masterpieces” and “the good old days” is to make the loudest farting noise possible. |
 | | We ought to just abandon the whole stupid idea of having a single rock canon, and instead stand ready to question and re-examine our values and assumptions at any time, while communicating with people who share our passions and thereby coming to a greater understanding not only of differing viewpoints, but of ourselves. |
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