The creative pain

What is the source of the creativity for all the artists around? What makes them come up with all those beautiful songs and lyrics?

From where I’m standing, the source of creativity is pain or at least the lack of inner peace…

I mean, do you see a great composer happy with himself, not having any dare in his life, working from 9 to 5 on his piano? We see all day long great artists doing foolish things, we sometimes laugh, we sometimes blame them, hey, look at this stupid guuy, he has all he wants and still does this crap…

Did you ever think that he may need that crap to stay alive from a creative point of view?

I mean we all love and hopefully we look for and find inner peace. Probably great composers too, but do you really think that all those love songs that we love would have been created if the composer was happy and happy with his life?

For me, Bon Jovi’s “In these arms” describes it best:

I would do anything Id beg, Id steal, Id die
To have you in these arms tonight
Baby I want you like the roses want the rain
You know I need you like a poet needs the pain
I would give anything my blood my love my life
To have you in these arms tonight

Considering the last period, with Michael Jackson being dead and all the buzz around his life, do you think his creativity would have been the same if his life would have taken a different path 40 years ago?

What do you think?

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