Dylan said that streaming has made music "too smooth and painless" in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, published on Monday and timed with his new book "The Philosophy of Modern Song."We're pill poppers, cube heads and day trippers, hanging in, hanging out, gobbling blue devils, black mollies, anything we can get our hands on.In 2022, he sold his back catalog of recorded music to Sony Music in a deal that Variety reported was worth between $150 million and $200 million."It's a magic show, conjures up spirits, it is an extension of our body, like the wheel is an extension of our foot," Dylan said."But it might be the final nail driven into the coffin of civilization; we just don't know.""