[JuZ]

Perhaps you're the one letting life down?

Fullgore: I figured.

Life can't let you down, because life itself has no control over your actions.
All of your decisions are based on your own experience or your surroundings.

Life can't let you down, because life itself has no control over your actions.
All of your decisions are based on your own experience or your surroundings.

Yeah and wouldn't it be great sometimes not knowing what we've experienced?! We probably get another chance to face our fears and our life gets an new direction.....but then again that would be paradox!

Life can let you down, because life has to provide the opportunities. If you don't get the opportunity to make something out of your life, you're doomed. No matter how hard you try.

Life can let you down, because life has to provide the opportunities. If you don't get the opportunity to make something out of your life, you're doomed. No matter how hard you try.

It IS a matter of how hard you try, you're responsible for yourself. Lets say, the opportunitys make 10% out of the whole thing. The rest depends on yourself.
My 2 cents.

Life can let you down, because life has to provide the opportunities. If you don't get the opportunity to make something out of your life, you're doomed. No matter how hard you try.

It IS a matter of how hard you try, you're responsible for yourself. Lets say, the opportunitys make 10% out of the whole thing. The rest depends on yourself.
My 2 cents.

so who bought the cheese into the thread?

Oh that's easy:

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm high on life!!!

Yeah, sorry 'bout that.

You might have a point about drugs but I stand by my point that music theory and metal don't go together at all (there's like... 2 exceptions)

I never commented on the "metal vs music theory" thing, so you can stand by your point with ease

Life can let you down, because life has to provide the opportunities. If you don't get the opportunity to make something out of your life, you're doomed. No matter how hard you try.

Life doesn't provide the opportunity, you'll have to do that for yourself. Life means nothing more than being alive. Couple of years later life ends, and you're dead. Game over, bye bye.
You are born alone, and you will die alone, it's totally up to you how you spend the time in between.

[EphelDuath666]

hmmm...I don't know. On the one hand I don't care. Let them do to themselves whatever they want to do to themselves as long as no one else gets hurt. On the other hand, if you take drugs and need them to be creative and only get the best results when you take them, isn't that like cheating? And doesn't that make the result less natural? Kind of like an athlete that dopes. But I guess at the end of the day it does not really matter...


... or I could just fuck off

On the other hand, if you take drugs and need them to be creative and only get the best results when you take them, isn't that like cheating? And doesn't that make the result less natural? Kind of like an athlete that dopes. But I guess at the end of the day it does not really matter...

Haha, I wouldn't call that "cheating". Athletes define themselves through competition, and in order to make their results comparable, they all have to obey the same rules - no enhancement of their physical abilities through substances that are officialy labeled as doping by the federation in charge. (What a sentence...) That being said, I definitely would be disappointed if I heard that an athlete I admire for his or her achievements reached those not only because of his willpower and hard training, but also by taking illegal substances.

Those rules simply don't exist when it comes to creating music. I don't admire some of Devin's albums less just because I know that he might have been frequently on drugs during the time he created them.

I think that the music is already in us - our "out there", depends on how you prefer it being called. Maybe certain drugs help certain musicians to be more focused, to get a slightly different perspective of what they do - but I just don't see how drugs make someone a better musician. I seriously pity everyone who tries to express himself creatively and thinks that he can only come up with something good when doing it on drugs; be it music, painting, writing or whatever. Get high on art itself, not for it.

On the other hand, if you take drugs and need them to be creative and only get the best results when you take them, isn't that like cheating? And doesn't that make the result less natural? Kind of like an athlete that dopes. But I guess at the end of the day it does not really matter...

Haha, I wouldn't call that "cheating". Athletes define themselves through competition, and in order to make their results comparable, they all have to obey the same rules - no enhancement of their physical abilities through substances that are officialy labeled as doping by the federation in charge. (What a sentence...) That being said, I definitely would be disappointed if I heard that an athlete I admire for his or her achievements reached those not only because of his willpower and hard training, but also by taking illegal substances.

Those rules simply don't exist when it comes to creating music. I don't admire some of Devin's albums less just because I know that he might have been frequently on drugs during the time he created them.

I think that the music is already in us - our "out there", depends on how you prefer it being called. Maybe certain drugs help certain musicians to be more focused, to get a slightly different perspective of what they do - but I just don't see how drugs make someone a better musician. I seriously pity everyone who tries to express himself creatively and thinks that he can only come up with something good when doing it on drugs; be it music, painting, writing or whatever. Get high on art itself, not for it.

Yeah, I think the main difference between athletes doping and musicians doing drugs is that art isn't a competition.

In my experience, its not a matter of thinking "hey i can only draw well when I'm high". When I'm sober I'm just not compelled to draw at all, or if I am I get bored really fast, but if I'm high I'll want to pick up my sketchbook and draw for hours on end.