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How? I majored in Music Education and Computer Science, and minored in Psychology and Physics. I did that specifically because I thought Music, Physics, and Computer Science were all just math. I was correct about the first two. I would call CS linguistics, not math. The psych explains how the first two are math.
If you were studying all that, double majoring and double minoring, you aren't a musician, no musician is smart enough for all that. You were a computer/science guy who was also good at music.
My brother is one of those bona-fide geniuses, and he was also a decent saxophonist in high school, but he wouldn't have described himself as a musician. He also loves sports because it has lots of interesting statistics, but that doesn't make him an athlete.
you haven't met any really good musicians then
I actually have, many of them. It's a joke, good musicians are insanely smart. They can be loose cannons though, that's no secret.