Lemmy Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

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.

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

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

Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

I have really severe tinnitus.

I was born deaf. Sound never existed in my life, and this is completely normal to me.

I didn't wake up one day and just couldn't hear. I woke up one day and realized I was having difficulty, and that I had overcompensated by lip reading, so that I didn't really understand how bad it was.

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.

Dad could speak with a strong voice. And luckily, he was very good at lip-reading, so he was able to disguise his deafness well. He tried various hearing aids but would find them fiddly and uncomfortable, and worse, they often made horrible high-pitched noises.