Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] musicians

["Vern Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I would expand it to include many artists. I wonder if to be really successful with the creative portion of your brain, that the common sense side gets suppressed in some way.

 

Musicians have the worse of it as they are totally thrust into the lifestyle, living fast, lots of sex, and yes drugs, at least drinking. Many I know that are not into the sex and drugs part have problems with depression. I know more than one talented musician both successful and less successful that have this problem.

 

While I play music, and have had some degree of success in the past, I have always had the power of will to resist drug use. I am not so sure about the depression part of the equation however. I have said before that I am not sure what being happy is, nor do I know what being depressed is for sure, but there are many days where I have all the classic symptoms of depression.

 

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

Why are musicians such a bunch of crazy drug addicts?  Seriously.  I was just thinking about some of my faves and noticing that a lot of them had miserable lives.  So many had drug problems.  There were a few suicides and homicides.  A bunch more of these people worked in really mediocre jobs despite world-class musical ability.  So what's the deal?

I'm thinking it is really hard to get to be that good and you have to give up a lot to pull it off.  "Musician" doesn't tend to pay all that well. But maybe it has something to do with the connection between musical creativity and mental illness.

What do you think?

Mike

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