Mandy Harvey Quotes

Mandy Harvey

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 2, 1988

I wanted to show that even if you fail, you have the ability to pick yourself up off the floor and try again. I wanted to show a different side of what a disability looks like to highlight all the invisible ones.

Mandy Harvey

I'm not scared to sing songs. I'm not scared to walk out the front door and make a mistake.

Mandy Harvey

I don't live my life based on fear of failure. I live my life with an understanding of failure and I'm embracing it, because every time I fail, I learn something new.

Mandy Harvey

What I do is I get the sheet music and I put it out for myself and then I use a visual tuner to go through each note individually. And every time I make a mistake, I start the song over again, so I use the muscle memory of intervals and then watching that tuner, and then a lot of repetition.

Mandy Harvey

I was in Colorado for about 15 years but my family is all from Florida.

Mandy Harvey

I was always a shy child and slightly hard of hearing, so music was my outlet.

Mandy Harvey

So I studied a lot with the balloon, and in learning how to sing with other musicians and keep in time - that's all by touch. A lot of that I feel in my body, and growing up with hearing I have pretty good muscle memory, and I was born with near perfect pitch.

Mandy Harvey

When I'm playing with my band, I designate different parts to feel different things. The bass pounds in your chest when you go to a concert. It almost replaces your heartbeat. Then the drums you feel on the floor.

Mandy Harvey

I am an ambassador for a nonprofit organization and I love being able to help people crush their barriers. I recently wrote a book. I want to do more with my life and help people do more with their lives, whatever that looks like.

Mandy Harvey

The thing I love about music... you can close your eyes and be transported back to a memory or a dream or a feeling.

Mandy Harvey

My touring band, they're just brilliant, and all of them are learning ASL, so the wall of communication is breaking.

Mandy Harvey

A long time ago I started talking into a balloon so I could feel myself talking, to practice judging volume, and compare it to other musicians.

Mandy Harvey

My friends and family refused to give up on me even when I gave up on myself, and I wanted to hopefully encourage even just one person to try again.

Mandy Harvey

I was a shy child. I had anxiety. I used to cry when I had to give a presentation.

Mandy Harvey

I started writing music long after I lost my hearing.

Mandy Harvey

I don't need pity. I want to be looked at like a musician, because I am one. I happen to be deaf.

Mandy Harvey

TV has been so far outside my comfort zone.

Mandy Harvey

With a progressive issue, it was always a monkey that was chasing me down. I had a great fear of losing my hearing. In my gut, I always knew that it was going to happen. I was just hoping that it would happen when I was 50 and not when I was 18.

Mandy Harvey

I'm not a story; I'm a person, and my passion is music. And I want your passion to be my music - so, judge me on my music.

Mandy Harvey

If I take back any of the bumps, bruises or scrapes I've been through. I wouldn't be the same person.

Mandy Harvey