I've had a life-long passion for music and astronomy and often feel the two of them tugging at me. It is not unusual to have an interest in science as well as the arts. Leonardo daVinci is an obvious example. I am certainly not in the same league as someone like Leonardo daVinci, but no matter what the level of expertise, artists and scientists are searching for answers to the same questions. The insight with which the scientist, like the artist, tries to see into nature is both imaginative and creative.
Science tries to find order and meaning in our experience, and the same can be said of art.
They both have a sense of personal exploration, and the same sense of pride and discovery in understanding the universe and the human condition. As a musician, William Herschel was gifted. As an astronomer, he was a genius. Few musicians have heard of Herschel, but astronomers think of him as the greatest observational astronomer of the 18th century. Herschel played a variety of instruments with great ability, and by 14 was proficient enough at the oboe to join his father and elder brother in the Foot Guards.