(np) Dylan's _Chronicles vol 1_ AuH20

[Jed Kelestron]

Politics was always one because there were people who were trying to
change things. They were involved in the political game because that
is how they had to change things. But I have always considered
politics just part of the illusion. I don't get involved much in
politics. I don't know what the system runs on. For instance, there
are people who have definite ideas or who studied all the systems of
government. A lot of those people with college-educational backgrounds
tended to come in and use up everybody for whatever purposes they had
in mind. And, of course, they used music, because music was accessible
and we would have done that stuff and written those songs and sung
them whether there was any politics or not. I never did renounce a
role in politics, because I never played one in politics. It would be
comical for me to think that I played a role. Gurdjieff thinks it's
best to work out your mobility daily.

       --Bob Dylan in Playboy interview (March, 1966)