Today I have been thinking of taking up playing piano.
I listen to all of these beautiful songs and I can't help but (attempt to) mock and play air piano (instead of air guitar, "air piano").
Last night Alek played "Moonlight Sonata" by: Beethoven to sell me to the piano. And today I've been listening to Yann Tiersen on repeat.
I wonder why Beethoven wrote "Moonlight Sonata". When you listen to it, it sounds as if he was deeply emotional. Personally, it sounds slightly depressing, but it's still incredibly beautiful. If you haven't listened to that song, it is definitely worth 6 minutes and 4 seconds of your life. Beethoven was a very depressed man. He drank himself to death, and his liver eventually gave out. Sometimes you can tell how he felt just by the way he would pound on the piano keys with the notes blaring. If there were two people I would be able to meet in the arts history, without a doubt it'd be Edgar Allan Poe and Beethoven.
Edgar Allan Poe is another great story that I will tell some other time.
But I will leave you with one great quote out of a piece of his writing:
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
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