Ear Protection Quotes

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

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

I never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing with earphones effectively. They just give you a false sense of security. A lot of us don't need earphones. I don't think Springsteen or Mick do. But other people more or less have given in. But they ought not to. They don't need to. Especially if they have a good band.

I did know that I could do scream very well. When I was in high school, I got a very strange job one Halloween filming screams for a radio station. I would just go into a soundstage and scream and scream and scream, and everybody would put on ear plugs, so I had an inkling.

Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course - he dies, I have to listen to it.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

You see on 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'X Factor,' they all wear ear plugs. But I could not hear myself when I wore them. So that is where the strong voice came from.

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

The weather was so cold in Lisbon when I arrived. I decided, 'Let's grow the hair to hide my ears.' And after that, it became nice hair.

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

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

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.

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

If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?

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.

The doctors told me my hearing would get worse if I continued swimming, but I loved the water so much, I just couldn't stop.

My hearing is usually O.K.

Sam came around the side of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. “Oh my God, what is THAT?” I used my thumb and middle finger to flick the multicolored pom-pom on top of my head. “In my language, we call it a HAT. It keeps my ears warm.” “Oh my God,” Sam said again, and closed the distance between us. He cupped my face in his hands and studied me. “It’s horribly cute.” He kissed me, looked at the hat, and then he kissed me again. I vowed never to lose the pom-pom hat.

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

I have really severe tinnitus.

I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home.

Always take earplugs and an eye mask. It doesn't matter where you are. Even if you're in the best hotel, if there's road works outside, then you're screwed. So I take earplugs and an eye mask with me wherever I go.