it takes a sensitive soul

this feels so true, from my experience with ross, and what it takes out of him (and gives him) to make music, via pitchfork’s “what it means for djs to grow old”:

But 46-year-old Berlin DJ Daniel Wang knows the other extreme: He has never drank or done drugs, but he says he understands why geniuses like Miles Davis and Nile Rodgers have. “It takes a sensitive soul to dedicate their whole life to the abstract emotions and sensations of making and playing music,” he muses. “Who says that the only correct model of living is abstinence, austerity, and therefore longevity?”