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I received a Carpenters LP this week and listening to it today I couldn't help but think of the personal problems that afflicted both Karen and Richard. Then, I realized that many artists (musicians, painters, composers...) had great pain in their lives but produced works that we find so rewarding.
I wish they hadn't had to experience such despair but I do thank them all for making my life so much more enjoyable.
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"Then, I realized that many artists (musicians, painters, composers...) had great pain in their lives but produced works that we find so rewarding."
Yea ok that's fair.
Do we need to draw a distinction between giving it all or being milked to death?
One has to wonder: would people like Charlie Parker have produced music
of such quality were they not so screwed up? I contend that Parker's
drug and alcohol problems formed an integral part of his personality
and hence of his playing. Had he been sober, he'd never have produced
on the level he did.
Stan Getz is another example of such an individual.
MK
Another school of thought is that when people are in pain, they will do whatever is necessary to relieve it. Including the pain of psychiatric illness (I don't say mental because they are physical, not metaphysical), and cause and effect are not always clear. So pain relief may have allowed Parker to express himself artistically, but I think he would have been better off with no illness in the first place. But I take your point that a person's human essence must be considered as a whole.
Listening to the Carpenters causes me pain!
I could have used any number of examples but what I wanted to express was that I am grateful for the "art" that resulted from the pain - self inflicted, or otherwise - that many went through.
I suppose that some could not have created what they did without the experiences they went through.
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