Matter of perspective

I guess it is just how you choose to see things.  Simplicity works for me.  It helps explain the complexities in everything that surround us. 

For instance, with music, I always told my students, they only want you think that it is difficult and hard to understand, but really there are only two tunes you need to understand, "Heart and Soul" and "Louie, Louie."  Most music can be analyzed in relation to those two songs, Bach, Beethoven, Bjork and Bird.  It works and is all pretty basic.

In trying to explain how music is made up simple elements, I would use architecture or the analogy of making bread. 

What are the ingredients of bread?  Water, flour, a little salt, yeast, maybe one or two other ingredients.  Now, imagine that French bakery with all those types of bread.  Of course, it just keeps going from there as there are many, many kinds of bread, the point being there is a simplicity in what goes into all of them.

Or in architecture, look around you, how many shapes can you see in the room or the buildings outside?  Really, I suspect not too many.  A quadrilateral, a triangle, a circle, maybe if you are lucky a rhombus and yes, I know a rectangle or square is really two triangles.  Simple basics, that's how it all works.... for me. 

Now that explains everything, doesn't it?  Where's my Pulitzer?  Lost in the mail again this year?