He knew he had a gift, and he was a responsible steward of his gift: he became a craftsman, too, experimenting and writing, always seeking perfection. He understood that the experience of great music isn’t just the words, the notes, the arrangement, the staging, the story, the voice, the instruments it’s all of it, and the whole of that is so much more than the sum of its parts. He knew the power of music, and he understood the importance of his talent. And that would go on forever.ĭavid Bowie wasn’t some rock god in the way people think of all the men who fell around him back in the early 70s. Yes, yes, his art is eternal, yadda yadda, but we all knew he’d never go, right? He would look distinguished and wise and beautiful, and then he would open that wide mouth and laugh like he could swallow the world, and look like joy. To the contrary, David Bowie always felt eternal. Typing that sentence, in fact, led to a torrent that required me to shut down this document, go to my work bathroom to compose myself, then head back out with my head down and my hair in my face. Since the inception of, we’ve had to say goodbye a few times.
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