Searching for Sugar Man - Rick Emmerson

What he’s demonstrated very clearly is that you have a choice. 

He took all that torment, all that agony, all that confusion and pain and he transformed it in to something beautiful. 

He’s like the silkworm, you know, you know you take this raw material and you transform it, and you come out with something that wasn’t there before, something beautiful, something perhaps transcendent something perhaps eternal, in so far as he does that I think he is representative of the human spirit of what’s possible that you have a choice, this has been my choice, to give you “Sugar Man”, now have you done that…ask yourself ?

“He approached the work

from a different place than

most people do.

He took it very, very seriously.

Son' of like a sacrament, you know?

He was going to do this dirty,

dirty work for eight or ten hours, okay?

But he was dressed in a tuxedo.”

“He had this kind of magical quality

that all genuine poets and artists have

to elevate things.

To get above the mundane, the prosaic.

All the bullshit.

 All the mediocrity that's everywhere.

 

The artist, the artist is the pioneer.

Even if his musical hopes were dashed,

the spirit remained.

And he just had to keep finding a place,

refining the process

of how to apply himself.

He knew that there was something more.

It was in the early 's.

He wanted to do something,

do something righteous,

make a difference.”

                   (Rick Emmerson)