And he POSITIONS himself as an artist, not as a businessman. He very much participates in his own mythology rather than engaging with the messiness of narrative of music as art and music as business. He’s more itnerested in hiding the business aspect of the music INDUSTRY and want to ensure that it’s only seen as a creative endeavor.
Many artists do much better on that front - pretty much any punk artist with any integrity for example, is more than willing to discuss that point of artistic production in a capitalist economy. Same with many hip-hop artists. Hell, even pop artists like Taylor Swift are far more willing to discuss these issues than someone like Dylan or Springsteen, who are so very wrapped up in the mythologizing that hides the reality.
But they’re DYLAN AND SPRINGSTEEN so are GREAT ARTISTS who are beyond reproach, no matter what they do on the business end of things…
