Lee Hazlewood Quotes

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

There's nothing wrong with a lisp.

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

I did have a speech impediment.

I had a stutter when I was a young. I went to speech therapy.

I've got a speech impediment.

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter. It was part of what made me very reclusive as a kid.

But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.

Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.

I will always have a stutter.

Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. My own private theory is that stammerers have so many ideas swirling around their brains at once that they can't get them all out, though I haven't found any scientific evidence to back that up.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.