I do agree with Werner's opinion about what drives so many jazz men and women do drugs. We find this to be so true, when the jazz artist himself/herself lost. The audience is unable or unwilling to follow the jazz artist's new explorations within his/her music. The way Werner states: Sometimes jazz finds itself lost, wandering trackless paths where the calls fade into echoes of themselves. When the artist fined themselves struggling the turn to drugs to try to pick themselves up from what they might be going through. Thinking that the drugs they choose to take will get them through the troubles they are going through, or just all together forget the struggles and pain they are going through at the time. Also hoping that the drugs they use will help them come up with a hit single. Chances are that they'll play something the world's never heard and chances are it won't hear it this time either, which is why so many jazz artist turn to drugs. The jazz artist turns t the needles, the pip's, the bottles and for the most part of it only deadens the pain. It just seems so unbearable to these jazz artist. For example, the kind of pain killed Jimi Hendrix in 1970; Hendrix expressed his desire for a deeper audience response. The main thing that used to bug me was that the people wanted too many visual things from me. I never wanted it to be so much of a visual thing. When I didn't do it, people thought I was being moody, but I can only freak when I really feel like doing so. Now I just want the music to get across, so that people can just sit back and close their eyes and know exactly what is going on without caring a darn about what we are doing while we are on stage. Hendrix wanted his fans to love his old and new style of music, but he found it hard to except the way his fans accepted the style of music he played. They didn't like the change of music Jimi Hendrix played, as he lived and died the blues. When jazz artist go through what Hendrix went through they say the jazz greats of the pass seems to haunt us., like Samuel Beckett, Billie Holiday. I have to say these artist that play and sing the blues, come to one point where they themselves are actually feeling the blues. We know what they say about jazz artist that play and sing the blues, that some of that artist actually lived the blues in their past and some at the present, where felling the blues and that made it easier for them to play the blues, but it ended up making them feel even bluer. The depression they ended up getting into made them turn to drugs, but for the most it had to do with the time and the style of music.