“The world sends us garbage. We send back music.”

                       ~Favio Chavez, orchestra director

Those with love and passion and curiosity will see everything as useful in some way. Some call it the “enchantment with everyday objects.”

The next time you think you have to have an expensive instrument to make music, remember this video. I got all choked up. Brilliant!

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Thanks to Dan Coyle, author of The Talent Code, and The Little Book of Talent for calling my attention to this gem.

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