Creedence Clearwater Revival
CREEM: Are your convictions in the music as a person as opposed to being an artist? Is there politics that goes in there, as well as your music or is it your art before your politics? JOHN FOGERTY: The thing you said about politics in music we find that around a lot.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
CREEM INTERVIEW
CREEM: Are your convictions in the music as a person as opposed to being an artist? Is there politics that goes in there, as well as your music or is it your art before your politics?
JOHN FOGERTY: The thing you said about politics in music we find that around a lot. Most places are a lot looser than here. You know...some of our convictions are in our music but they’re not in there a hundred percent. The music’s still more important. CREEM: Well, then politically, it’s all seperate from your art, or do you consider it seperate?
JOHN: No, but as an entertainer...after awhile it’s not entertainment. Too much of anything drags. What I’m trying to say is, really, that you can combine the two really nicely. It works. When I use the' term “successfully” I mean the politics doesn’t suffer and the music doesn’t suffer. They both come off but what we’ve heard described as political music is usually not very much thinking politics and not very much music either. Especially not much music. Let’s put it this way, there’s no very good example of anyone who hangs it together very well.