Songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic.. whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with. Bob Dylan
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In a time when pop culture is trying to draw the majority of the population in its pocket, it's refreshing to read an artist's opinion that his music is more important than just light entertainment. For him, the music was his guide into some altered consciousness of reality, but it wasn't that he was anti-popular culture or anything. He just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick, and it was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window, and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with.

Source: Chronicles, Vol. 1

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