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Originally Posted by Jim Moonan
He articulates how critical it is for the artist to overcome the outside interference that doesn’t help and will likely stifle creative expression. Public opinion often gets in the way of artistic expression.
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[i]“...And I said to the other guys in the Hawks, and I said to Bob, ‘They’re [the audience] wrong. The world is wrong. This [the music they were making] is really good’
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I'm less impressed with RR's story. (I like his music.) If the story's strength is how RR depicts the relationship between writer (or performer) and audience, I don't find the story illuminating. And, as almost always happens in criticism of pop music, RR makes no effort to explain what he means by "good." What good is pop music if it doesn't please an audience?
(We could ask the same question about any popular form, including light verse. Any form whose primary purpose is other than to seriously explore topics of serious concern. Any argument that Dylan is a poet--as I know many consider him--won't, I'm pretty sure, include any of the stuff RR is talking about--as nearly as we can figure out what that even is.)