Blind Quote by Ben Harper

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

— Ben Harper

Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a…

— Andrea Bocelli

I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I…

— Ben Harper

When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

— Mark E. Smith

It's exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it's not like, 'Oh,…

— Michael Arden

After six hours of being blind, you lose the sense of how a person is physically. It was amazing to hear the little buzzing…

— Jamie Foxx

They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back…

— Lester Bowie

Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think,…

— Jose Saramago

In the '80s, a lot of kids, if you were kind of bright, you got bussed to schools out of your community. So you…

— Kamasi Washington

I was very fortunate when I came into Children of a Lesser God. The production team was already completely staffed with support elements for…

— Lauren Ridloff

Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.

— Mick Jagger

I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their…

— Helen Keller