One-Legged Piano

One-legged piano and a six-stringed guitar. Bookworm. Just like James Brown said, "I'm Real."

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When the wind blows the grass off the water,  The water then shows forth its own purity. Behold the bright and fresh sprays of coral, And the princely fruits growing in the water of life!

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'Tis reason, sense, perception, thought, and life. In the old women, life is infused.

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Men's bodies are like pitchers with closed mouths; Beware, till you see what is inside them. The pitcher of this body holds the water of life, Whilst that one holds deadly poison. If you look at the contents you are wise; If you look only at the vessel you are misguided.

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Distinguish well true dawn from false dawn, distinguish the color of the wine from that of the cup; So that, instead of many eyes of caprice, One eye may be opened through patience and constancy. Then you will behold true colors instead of false, And precious jewels in lieu of stones. But what is a jewel? Nay, you will be an ocean of pearls; Yea, a sun that measures the heavens!  Rumi - Mathnawi

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Be not weak of heart, Nor yet sluggish and lax as water and mud; But if thou takest umbrage at every rub, How wilt though become a polished mirror? -Rumi, from the Mathnawi (Sufi holy book)

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Past and future are what veil God from our sight. Burn up both of them with fire! How long Wilt thou be partitioned by these segments as a reed?  -Rumi (from the Mathnawi)

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"Life, like a stream of water, is renewed and renewed, Though it wears the appearance of continuity in form. That seeming continuity arises from its swift renewal, As when a single spark be whirled round swiftly, It seems to the eye a continuous line of fire."

-Rumi, from the Mathnawi

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Can a cock who crows too soon expect peace? - Rumi, from the Mathnawi (Sufi bible)

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Regardless of whether evolution has given our brains musical modules, it seems to have given us intrinsic proclivities for extracting music from the world. Music is a part of what we are and how we perceive the world.  (The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It by Philip Ball)

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"The Tristan Chord"- Tristan und Isolde- Richard Wagner

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As quoted in Karen Pryor's "Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching & Training

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No, music is not simply a kind of mathematics. It is the most remarkable blend of art and science, logic and emotion, physics and psychology, known to us.

The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It  by Philip Ball 

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“In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say 'Aha' to an art object, that is a recognition of divinity. And what divinity is it? It is your divinity, which is the only divinity there is. We are all phenomenal manifestations of a divine will to live, and that will and the consciousness of life is one in all of us, and that is what artwork expresses.”

Joseph Campbell, The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-87