How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Almost Famous.
Quote #7
DENNIS HOPE: If you think Mick Jagger will still be out there trying to be a rock star at age fifty, then you are sadly, sadly mistaken.
New manager Dennis Hope represents the music industry: a piece of the corporate machinery that sees profit in rock and roll and will stop at nothing to capitalize on it.
Of course, the irony of Hope's argument is that Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Rolling Stones, is still going strong at the age of 70, not because of the profit (how much more money can he possibly make?), but for the love.
Quote #8
LESTER: You're coming along at a very dangerous time for rock and roll. The war is over, they won. And they will ruin rock and roll, and strangle everything we love about it.
Lester Bangs is firmly in the music-first camp. He does what he can to keep the focus on the music and the artistry. But he knows the war is lost. Folks like Dennis Hope have co-opted rock and roll for the sake of profit, squashing the very essence of the art.
Quote #9
Penny dances alone in the Cleveland auditorium to "The Wind" by Cat Stevens.
Crowe juxtaposes the introduction of new manager Dennis Hope and his corporate, consumer-oriented approach to music with a moment that embodies the purity and beauty of what rock and roll should be. Penny symbolizes the innocence and idealism of artistic expression, what will be compromised by the music-as-business mentality.