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December 24, 2009, 1:26 pm    Wall Street Journal Interviews Billy Corgan - The Evolution of Music

Source: Wall Street Journal "It's all about the Internet. Musically, I think it really affects the idea of creating a body of work. It's sort of made everything about having a moment. Just having a great song doesn't seem to be enough anymore -- there has to be a great story, a controversy, because people just don't have enough time. I grew up in the shadow of the '50s and '60s where the singles market, where it being about one song, had passed, and it was more about albums and a body of work. Now, careers are made and broken one song at a time. It has a reductionist aspect to it. But if you look at who really winds up surviving on the artistic battlefield, it's those who somehow maintain a level of inner integrity. Things of quality will be more successful over the long haul, so you have to sort of be able to ride the wave." -- Mr. Corgan is lead singer and guitarist of The Smashing Pumpkins.

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