I love a lot of music, but the music that has inspired me throughout my life has been music from the theatre world. Les Miserables is so incredibly inspiring to me I could cry every time I hear the soundtrack. The Beatles has inspired me for sure: Let It Be is an anthem for me. And Cat Stevens' rendition of the hymn Morning Has Broken is another anthem. I've left instructions to play it at my funeral.
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In the Norwegian film De Usynlige the Bergen Cathedral organ is played by Iver Kleive … Bridge Over Troubled WaterOriginally Posted by Alan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPScxJlaLbc
Not music but I really wish we could all meet sometime. I think it would be awesome.
Did you see that film? I did and I liked it
@ Iris Lilies
Yes, I think it was Amazon Prime where I saw it. Technically I believe the film is quite creative in showing events from two different perspectives. The tension felt by characters is memorable. The theme of redemption is truly inspirational, as well as the organ music.
What about the film did you consider inspirational?
I was entertained by this today - during nurses week:
https://youtu.be/id3KlaCwBmg
It was moving how the lead character had to to ingratiate himself back into society after his prison time. He was a sympathetic character.
edited to add: years later after this thread was started, I still remember this film, English translation Troubled Waters which I remember without even looking up. The actor was long faced and handsome so I guess that goes a long ways in me remembering it!
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I like a very wide variety of music from classical to semi-hard rock. As I age, I seem to be finding a "middle ground" of not too hard, not too soft. LOL.
Love the Beatles, John Denver - I have always found them to be very inspirational. After the CT school shooting, I found this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIuy1a9IdHk - again, makes me feel I can effect change starting with myself; person-to-person.
One of my children has been following BTS (Korean K-pop) from their beginnings and now has me listening. Even though I have to go find translations, I find their music good and their lyrics very inspirational.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
Be nice whenever possible. It's always possible. HH Dalai Lama
In a world where you can be anything - be kind. Unknown
I like that song too. Maybe because in our most honest moments we all recognize that we're just a little bit like that ourselves.
But my favorite John Prine song is one I learned listening to a John Denver album in the mid-1970s, Paradise (Peabody's Coal Train) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ediaZ5DhYjw
I was doing a lot of backpacking along the Appalachian Trial in those years, and at a gathering of hikers near Boone North Carolina the evening's entertainment was that anyone who wanted to could come up front and sing a couple of songs acapella.
Now I didn't have a great singing voice and I had never sung in front of more than 5 people, but I figured I could sing good enough for country music (KWIM?) so after a half hour or so I walked up front and stood there in front of ~100 strangers, and standing tall like the proud young buck I was, I sang Paradise, and then I sang Sweet Surrender. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K23XK15M68g
Those were my two best songs, and two of my favorites. They were also perfect for a room full of backpackers. And the applause afterward was both a thrill and a relief.
I grew up in S/E Missouri but have been in Ohio for the past 40 or so years. Once or twice a year I drive down to visit my mother along my favorite route which includes a portion of the Western Kentucky Parkway. At one point along that route I cross over into Muhlenberg County and then almost immediately cross over the Green River. Over the 40 years of crossing that bridge I always break out into song: "Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County across the Green River where Paradise lay, I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr. Peabody's coal train's done hauled it away....", and I guess I always will.
Since John Prine died last year I've spent hundreds of hours listening to his music, never from albums or cd's as I find those to be over produced. I prefer the intimate stripped down versions you can only find on YouTube. This was his last song, recorded in his home just before his death. I get misty eyed every time I view it.
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