James Nachtwey Quotes

Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.

I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing.

I have serious hearing loss. I'm challenged if I don't have my hearing aids in.

The hearing test, which involved sitting in a quiet room listening to noises of various pitch played through headphones, confirmed the worst. I had no hearing in my left ear whatsoever.

I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

My hearing is usually O.K.

My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.

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

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

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

I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

In 1967, I found out I was losing my hearing. I went 10 years without any help. I had otosclerosis - hardening of the bone in the middle of the ear.

I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that.

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!

I have selective hearing.

My ears are shot. I'm a musician.

There is a lot of technology out there that can help people with hearing loss including wearable technology that vibrates.

I am a little deaf now. Without my hearing aids in, I miss a lot of peripheral sounds. I had tinnitus, too, for a while.

I'm almost completely deaf anyway. So I'm worried. I'm very worried.

The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for volume: 'Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.' Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper.

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.