“I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.” UseArtistDrugCocaineHallucinogensRecreational Drugs Author:Robert Mapplethorpe
“You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.” WorldCountryPlayArtistJesusChristCollegeSourceDrugConsciousJesus ChristRapDrivenSupposed To BeArenaMosesCritiqueKrishnaAdvocatingMtvRap ArtistConscious Rap Author:KRS-One
“The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.” ThinkingKnowsHumansRealJobsArtistSpiritualityHuman BeingsCrazyDrugAddExtrasMystical Author:Chris Martin
“I never took drug to escape. I know some people take drugs to escape, but I took drugs because I was an experimenter. And an artist. And I was always trying to go to the other side of that veil and get information, like all writers have done through the millennia. To get some insights on how the whole thing works, if there's any way to know how it works, and write about it.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWritingTryingDoneWholeArtistSidesKnow HowInformationDrugInsightVeilsAlways Trying Author:Creed Bratton
“Things take a little more time when you're not doing really obvious sales. I don't have any nudity in my videos, or anything close to it, and I don't have shootouts or explosions or car chases ... There aren't a bunch of drugs in the videos and I am not wearing hot pants, and I don't dance. So, as far as videos or anything visually is concerned, I'm not a very visually stimulating artist.” LittlesArtistCarDrugConcernedHotObviousVideoBunchMore TimePantsExplosionsNudityHot Pants Author:Gavin DeGraw
“We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.” LooksAmericaArtistPovertyGenerationsPoetDrugTraditionSuicideAddictionDefeatListsFrustrationGreat ArtAlcoholismMy GenerationGreat ArtistDrug AddictionDrug AddictBest Poet Author:James Dickey
“When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.” KnowsReasonArtistSawsDrugMusicianDestructionAlcoholGreat MusicSeattleOregonGreat Musician Author:Meredith Brooks
“However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul of the artist and the need to self-medicate, which can lead to bad trouble either in drugs, or alcohol. So it's not that there's no connection, it's just that we can't make too much of it because it isn't the addiction that's the issue, it's the fragility of some people who do artistic work, who end up in rehab somewhere or other.” PeopleNeedsSoulEndsSelfArtistIssuesToo MuchTroubleDrugConnectionsAddictionAlcoholArtisticFragileSensitivityWireRehabFragility Author:Anne Roiphe
“Life has to keep going, so you can either be a victim the rest of your life and let it drag you down into drugs and alcohol and depression or you can turn it into something good, fun even, you know, and I tell young people who are going through depression that this might be the most important time of your life. This might be what makes you a great artist later on.” PeopleKnowsImportantMightYoungArtistTurnsFunDrugVictimAlcoholKeep GoingDragGreat ArtRest Of Your LifeGreat ArtistDrugs And AlcoholGood FunTime Of Your Life Author:Jeff Ross
“That authentic experience that happens both in the artist and in the audience you can classify as a mystical experience. You can classify it as aesthetic shock, or even a psychedelic experience. Some people seek to recreate that experience through drugs. But the other way that you can do it is through art, and through spectacle. We have those experiences when we go to rock shows, or when we listen to a piece of classical music, or read a particular poem, or see a painting.” PeopleArtArtistAudiencePaintingDrugAestheticMysticalYou Can Do ItClassical MusicPsychedelic Author:Janaka Stucky
“I never hung around people who took hard drugs, and much less hung around artists who took hard drugs. All I know is that people should listen to their bodies more. The body is a temple. We aren't here forever. Take care of that space suit and make the best of it till the wheels fall off.” PeopleCareArtistFallForeverDrugTake CareHung Author:Teri Gender Bender
“I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.” PeopleFunnyArtistDrinkDrugMy FriendsBoringSmokeFunny ThingsDrank Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.” LongDesireArtistOrderSocialAnimalRaceBreakSadnessDrugLetting GoGardenEmbraceNotesFleshIntenseCelebrateReleaseGrassCensorshipBladesMarathonMistressRuthlessAdorationCelestialShepherdsPolishedHeroinesServitudeFieryHowlCastesSocial OrderMonotonyBlades Of GrassNever Let Go Author:Patti Smith