stackyFACTSWriting beautiful music is much easier when you are severely high on narcotics. Hector Berlioz composed a massive, terrifying orchestral piece while deeply under the influence of opium, hallucinating witches, guillotines, and his own severe romantic rejection. He basically turned his awful drug trip into classical sheet music.
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