Speaker 1: I think that music has saved me time and time again.
Speaker 2: Music saved me two or three times over.
Speaker 3: If it hadn't been for the guitar, I honestly don't
Speaker 3: know what I would have done with my life, and
Speaker 3: it saved me.
Speaker 4: The Music Saved Me Podcast a podcast about the power
Speaker 4: of music.
Speaker 5: My name is going on as Ellen Judd, and I
Speaker 5: started playing guitar when I was eight years old.
Speaker 3: I don't know what would have happened to me if
Speaker 3: it hadn't been for music.
Speaker 5: I would have either probably been incarcerated or not alive.
Speaker 2: My name is Jelly Roll. My mother struggled with a
Speaker 2: lot of mental health stuff. She didn't leave her room
Speaker 2: very much, but when she would, she would come down
Speaker 2: to the kitchen. Then she would play records and the
Speaker 2: whole house would just flock to the kitchen, all six seven,
Speaker 2: you know. And I think that was the beginning of
Speaker 2: music starting to save my life.
Speaker 1: My name is Black Bach. I'm a neoclassical composer and
Speaker 1: pianist from Detroit, Michigan. I believe that musicians have a
Speaker 1: great power, and to use that power in a way
Speaker 1: that is of service to others is exactly why we
Speaker 1: were given the power in the first place.
Speaker 4: The Music Saved Me Podcast with Lynn Hoffman. Wherever you
Speaker 4: get your podcasts