Music is a powerful thing.<\/p>\n
It can make us deliriously happy and terribly sad. It forces us to snap our fingers, tap our feet, and dance until we can’t stand up. It soothes the soul and starts revolutions.<\/p>\n
Sometimes it can even inspire us to live a better life.<\/p>\n
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I first heard this quirky song by Baz Luhrmann when it first came out just as I was finishing college. In 1998. Yes, that makes me old. The urban legend doing the rounds was that the lyrics came from a graduation speech at MIT. That seemed more than a little timely, so I chose to ignore the fact that the real source was an article in the Chicago Tribune<\/a>…<\/p>\n I must have listened to it a hundred times in the first few weeks. I couldn’t get enough of it. And every few months, for the last two decades, I’ve dug it out and listened to it again.<\/p>\n