Mandy Harvey Quotes

After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

I started writing music long after I lost my hearing.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Music is such an important part of my life.

I know music is subjective.

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long as it doesn't bother them that they're not hearing 90 percent of the music that way.

I'm a musician, and I discovered the power of music pretty early in life.

I feel like I can see the music and can see how the character of the music actually flows. For me, that's music to my eyes.

Homer Collyer's chosen form of self-expression is the piano, although late in life, when his hearing also goes, he takes to writing.

On a more serious note, my challenges with hearing loss are certainly an interesting journey. The surprising upside is that my difficulties in hearing have motivated me to know my guitar fretboard better. My playing has become much more melodic and intentional as a result.

I have learned that music comes in all shapes and sizes.

I think anything you listen to is going to be different. You're going to listen to a song differently if you're just sitting around somewhere listening on your phone as opposed to sitting in a dark room listening to a vinyl album. It's going to be a totally different experience.

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.

In 24 years in the movie business, you have a lot of doors slammed in your face, and a lot of people say mean things. Every time, I'm constantly surprised at how the span of time gets quicker that I get okay with it, and I'm over it. That's been an interesting thing to learn.