Find your Music, and tune to your favorite radio station

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In life, as in art, we need to keep finding new ways to inspire our hearts and our work.

Music is a huge part of that! It could be the old dance track that always moves you around the house, or the incredible amount of new choices you might find from places like Pandora, Spotify, YouTube, life, etc... But the truth is there is music everywhere, and we need it in our lives. Music fine-tunes our Spirits, music moves our soul and music can indeed inspire great new ideas.

Every human being has music and we "tune" our selves into that...

When selecting a new show for Salgado Productions, I need to feel its music even when it's not a musical. I need actors reading the scripts out loud and I try to experience every rhythm that particular piece of art has as potential. If I feel the "lyrics" (text, content) matter or the "musical journey" (conflict, tension, arch, release) takes me on a ride, then I go on and have more conversations about the work. If my soul did not tune to either of them, WHY DO IT?

In some way, life is the same way, so why be around people that are not in tune with us? Or with people that we simply cannot tune in to their musical instruments - their heart, their voice, their motives.

There are just too many songs in the world for us to play a bad, uninspiring one on repeat.

Beyond that, in the business we are in we have to stay in tune with what's current, and yet we can't forget those songs that have in so many ways shaped who we are today. The music we grew up with has somehow helped trace the path for who we have become. Just as those in front of us have paved a way which we must remember not to ignore...

I wanted to tell you a bit more about the journey to art with a purpose, but the journey starts every morning when I put my music on and get inspired. So as I pay attention to simple little things, I find this blog might be a helpful reminder for some of us... Go Find Your Music, and tune in to your favorite radio station.

As my friend Greer likes to say: "Our lives are musicals in and of themselves".

Go ahead and be your own music!

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  1. HeathmegsMay 31, 2013 at 11:35 AM

    Great Blog! Let the MUSIC of your life, in your heart and soul move you in your journey, in your ART, in your PURPOSE. Thank you for this!

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  2. thejourneytoartwithapurposeMay 31, 2013 at 11:46 AM

    thank you for all the support and HARD work you do withing ART!

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