Cilla Black Quotes

I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!

I always have my Beats by Dr. Dre headphones turned up high. I'll probably be deaf by age 50.

My ears are shot. I'm a musician.

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

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

The sound levels on stage were so loud with all that constant banging and smash, smash, smash; it did untold damage to the fine nerve endings in the inner ear, though it is worse in the left, which is the side of my snare drum and the monitor.

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

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

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

I've had tinnitus for about 10 years, but since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse. Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem. I wish I'd thought about it earlier.

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

My hearing loss was essentially due to noise exposure during my military service. I was on an anti-submarine sub-chaser in WWII, and we had lots of depth charges going off all around us. There were plenty of explosions, and they were loud!

I carry out my full duties as Deputy First Minister and accept I have tinnitus but appreciate the hearing that I do have and that it does not limit me in a professional or personal capacity.

I have really severe tinnitus.

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.

My hearing is usually O.K.

I was often in the pit lane, the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.

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.

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

What I find is really interesting is the Ear-Nose-Throat doctor thing, which I know would take a lot of work and education, but it's something that really interests me, because it's something that helps people who've had the same problems as me, with the whole hearing and nose congestion and problems with your voice.

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

I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.