Rubin paused. "That's the magic of the business," he said. "It's all doom and gloom, but then you go to a Gossip show or hear Neil in the studio and you remember that too many people make and love music for it to ever die. It will never be over. The music will outlast us all."
The music man is Rick Rubin, the man who founded DefJam, talking about and working with Neil Diamond and it just doesn't seem right. The article is an interesting read about his struggle to turn around Columbia, including getting it and the music industry to embrace the subscription model of paying for music.