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Just said something on another thread that I think warrants expansion.
Some people seem to assume that anything weirdly creative or fantastical or a bit off the wall were created under the influence of drugs.
Take Frank Zappa for instance. If I had a fiver for everytime someone said that Zappa must have been on some weird sh*t to do the stuff he did I would be living in Tuscany right now being served by my own Oompa Loompas.
Zappa actually detested drugs and never really used them. He just had a rather unique mind.
Drugs can really hamper creativity. Coleridge forgot the rest of a potentially great poem because he was bombed off his gourd.
Usually when you're stoned all you can do is eat pizza and watch shite TV. I find it impossible to write under the influence.
I just think that the human mind is weird and wonderful enough to come up with uniquely fantastic visions without the aid or narcotics.
So anyway, I shall put this to you all.
Do drugs hinder or help creativity?
Take it away you gnarly dudes.
Some people seem to assume that anything weirdly creative or fantastical or a bit off the wall were created under the influence of drugs.
Take Frank Zappa for instance. If I had a fiver for everytime someone said that Zappa must have been on some weird sh*t to do the stuff he did I would be living in Tuscany right now being served by my own Oompa Loompas.
Zappa actually detested drugs and never really used them. He just had a rather unique mind.
Drugs can really hamper creativity. Coleridge forgot the rest of a potentially great poem because he was bombed off his gourd.
Usually when you're stoned all you can do is eat pizza and watch shite TV. I find it impossible to write under the influence.
I just think that the human mind is weird and wonderful enough to come up with uniquely fantastic visions without the aid or narcotics.
So anyway, I shall put this to you all.
Do drugs hinder or help creativity?
Take it away you gnarly dudes.