I came to the conclusion that music shouldn't be the dialectic of politics...Artistic flair is both a useful and fun tool for presenting ideas, but too much flair and you have to start wondering if the ideas could stand up by themselves

Add to that the danger of a corrupting effect on art itself, whose primary value does not derive from extra-artistic "ideas" it "presents".

It is notable how little of the greatest music (to take the art form I know the most about) is explicitly political.