Inspirational Music

Intro

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• soundtrack
• feel all warm and fuzzy inside
• lifts you up
• pick-me-up

• steady
• inspiration
• overcome
• sorrow

• reflective

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Music has always been a source of inspiration for people. It helps usovercome sorrow, pushes us to work harder, and makes us feel cheerful or reflective. Music is very powerful.

Listen to Miguel and Joe talk about the music that inspires them.

Dialog

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Miguel

Joe

Miguel:  Hey, Joe. I just bought the, uh, soundtrack to that movie Magnolia. Have you heard it?

Joe:  No. Is that soundtrack good?

Miguel:  Yeah, it’s really good! It has that one song, Dreams, on there, you know, like, “Dreams can come true, so on, so on…”

Joe:  Seems like I remember it, but I can’t remember who sings it.

Miguel:  Yeah. It’s this woman named, uh, Gabrielle, or something. I don’t think she had a lot of other popular songs, but that one song is awesome.

Joe:  Yeah, that is a pretty cool song. You know that reminds me of this other song that’s real inspirational that I listen to.

Miguel:  What’s that?

Joe:  It came out a while ago – back in the 80’s – but it’s called “We Are The World.”

Miguel:  Oh really? That is an inspirational song. I used to try to play that song on the piano.

Joe:  Oh really?

Miguel:  Yeah, I remember that song, it had like all those people, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Stevie Wonder.

Joe:  Yeah. Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart.

Miguel:  Oh yeah. It was all, like, the popular artists back then, right?

Joe:  Yeah, it sure was. All those people were real positive and every time I hear that song it, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Miguel:  It lifts you up right? It’s totally like that because all those people came together to, like, you know, try to help – it was feed children or something right?

Joe:  Yeah, it was, it was all about feeding children and just both of those songs seem real inspirational.

Miguel:  Yeah, I totally agree. Those are the songs that I play when I, I need a pick-me-up.

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