J Mascis Quotes

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.

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

Its rock n' roll that has done my hearing in.

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

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.

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

My ears are shot. I'm a musician.

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

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.

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

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 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'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.

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

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.

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.

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.

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

There's never a bad time to put earplugs in. They're the kind of thing you can reject as a bit lame, but somebody told me to do start wearing earplugs and it turned out to be great advice.

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

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!

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

Going to any loud place is terrible for me. I'm bad at loud restaurants.