“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music.
I see my life in terms of music… I get most joy in life out of my violin.” -Albert Einstein, 1929
All the b/w photos of Einstein on this site are worth a look. Good to think that music was such a part of Einstein’s life, and as the comments suggest, central to his inspiration as a physicist.
As one response underscored: “Engineering, medicine, law, business are necessary to sustain life, but poetry, music, love, beauty these are what we stay life for… Keating”