Sean Berdy Quotes

A friend of mine has a son who became deaf through meningitis. He called me one spring and asked me to keep a week out of my schedule because he wanted to start a school for deaf kids. I wanted to help.

I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

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 still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?

Music is my first love and the thing that I feel extremely connected to. I feel like I still have a long way to go within that in terms of being able to perform and write songs. But, yeah, I really hope 'The Possession' opens doors for me to do more acting, because I really enjoyed it.

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

In '92 - '93, I was at that age when I was looking for my identity and that's when I found dance music and I really fell in love with it.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

When people have hearing loss, I think they often take that burden and pass it on to their friends and family, and we make them scream and yell at us so we can hear! But I think it's better to take responsibility and wear hearing aids!

Hearing aids didn't cause any problem with my social life, my career, no problem at all, and I've been wearing them for a long time. As a matter of fact, once I became an entertainer and started working on television, I was probably the first performer to talk about hearing problems on the air.

When I was losing my hearing, we had to buy hearing aids and they were incredibly expensive. It was a huge financial situation.

I think the biggest misconception is that people think deaf people are not able to do things.