Monday, September 12, 2011

"...True Poets, They Who Are Seers, Seek to Express the Universe in Terms of Music."

Day fourteen: A picture of something you wish you were better at.
MUSIC.  The thing I most wish I was better at is playing musical instruments.  I play piano, I'm picking up the ukulele, and I played some guitar for awhile but now it just feels huge and awkward in my hands compared to my uke.
But I'm just average.  And I want to be, "Daang.  That girl has got some serious talent."

I feel like a part of me is lacking, or is not fully developed...like I can't fully express myself yet.  Ideally, I would be proficiently awesome at playing the
  • Piano
  • Ukulele
  • Guitar
  • Drums
  • Harmonica
  • Tambourine (Does that really even count?)
  • Harp
  • That small flute-ish instrument like from Lord of the Rings
Yeah.  Pretty much.  And no, that's not unrealistic.  I'll get there.  Even if it's not until the millenium.  :)

"Music is the purest form of art...therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him.  The notes come out from his very life.  They are not materials gathered from outside."  ~Rabindranath Tagore Indian poet, playwright, and essayist; won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913