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“Did the artist, by turning her own life into material, give the audience her tacit permission to judge her personal life? Or would the audience have judged her even if she’d kept her private life secret?
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“Does drug use enhance creativity? Samuel Coleridge and Baudelaire were on drugs, as were Edgar Allan Poe, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, everyone in the 27 Club, we could go on for hours.
But for every Poe and Holiday there are scores of pretentious nitwits who take drugs and make worthless crap that they pass off as art. It is not the drugs that produce The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Tell-Tale Heart, Strange Fruit or Pennyroyal Tea, it is talent.
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“It is an incontestable fact that heartbreak and misery are among the greatest inspirations known to human. Amy Winehouse drank from the well and spat it into the microphone. Everyone pronounced it wonderful, they say said, ‘Do it again.’
And you keep doing it again because it’s worked so well for you. It makes you happy, being unhappy…After a while maybe happiness and unhappiness begin to feel the same.”
/ Notes on the Death of Amy Winehouse by Jessica Zafra
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