Speaker 1: Music saved me.
Speaker 2: I think that music has saved me time and time again.
Speaker 3: Music saved me two or three times over.
Speaker 4: Music has been more so the arm of God around me.
Speaker 5: The Music Saved Me Podcast a podcast about the power
Speaker 5: of music.
Speaker 4: I'm Walker Hayes, and I'm here to talk about how
Speaker 4: important the gift of music is an outside source of therapy,
Speaker 4: but also just a therapeutic, creative way to express myself.
Speaker 3: My name is Jelly Roll. My mother struggled with a
Speaker 3: lot of mental health stuff. She didn't leave her room
Speaker 3: very much, but when she would, she would come down
Speaker 3: to the kitchen and she would play records, and the
Speaker 3: whole house would just flock to the kitchen, all six
Speaker 3: seven of us, you know. And I think that was
Speaker 3: the beginning of music starting to save my life.
Speaker 5: My name is Black Back.
Speaker 2: I'm a neoclassical composer and pianist from Detroit, Michigan. I
Speaker 2: believe that musicians have a great power, and to use
Speaker 2: that power in a way that is of service to
Speaker 2: others is exactly why we were given the power in
Speaker 2: the first place.
Speaker 1: Mary Goshe, we're dealing with alchemy here. Alchemy is an
Speaker 1: ancient form of magic. I would say, maybe turning coal
Speaker 1: into a diamond is alchemy. Why does a sad song
Speaker 1: make you feel happy? That is taking darkness and turning
Speaker 1: it into light. That's alchemy.
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