{"id":4432,"date":"2016-04-04T14:05:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T04:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2016-04-04T14:05:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T04:05:30","slug":"paul-simon-on-music-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4432","title":{"rendered":"Paul Simon on music today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Simon (of Simon and Garfunkel) on the future of the “album” concept:<\/p>\n

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I don’t think the album is going to disappear for several reasons … It’s not that people aren’t listening to albums.\u00a0 They’re just doing it on shuffle.\u00a0 What that does is it makes albums more eclectic and more interesting.\u00a0 But if an artist is unique enough they should be able to hold your attention for the 40 or 50 minutes of an album.\u00a0 There’s something about that length of time on our DNA. We like to hear it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He also has a positive view on the future of music:<\/p>\n

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So many people are studying music in schools now and many of the schools have really good music departments.\u00a0 It seems there is much, if not more, interest in music in this generation.\u00a0 I don’t foresee that it will just become about the three minute pop song.\u00a0 I think that’s appropriate for the 12, 13, 14 year olds, but kids outgrow that eventually.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Cited in: Iain Shedden, “Beautiful or What?”, The Weekend Australian<\/span>, April 16 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Simon (of Simon and Garfunkel) on the future of the “album” concept: I don’t think the album is going to disappear for several reasons … It’s not that people aren’t listening to albums.\u00a0 They’re just doing it on shuffle.\u00a0 What that does is it makes albums more eclectic and more interesting.\u00a0 But if an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[1006,711,1005],"class_list":["post-4432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composers-quotes","tag-future-of-music","tag-paul-simon","tag-the-recording-industry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}