Sound Sensitivity Quotes

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

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.

If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.

I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting feelings, my sparklers and black holes, and my single visual hallucination of a little pink man and a pink ox on the floor of my bedroom.

I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.

Yes, it's in my left ear. It's excruciating... I mean, it's the worst thing 'cause it's not... It never... It does go away - it's not true to say that it doesn't but, uhh... It doesn't... The doctors say it won't... It isn't actually going away - you've just gotta suppress... They try to come to terms with what it actually... Why some people fear it - that's the psychology behind it. They know it's there but why is it such a horrible sound? Well, you can say why is a guy scratching at a window with his nails such a horrible sound - I couldn't put up with that! This is worse!

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

Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.

One of the big areas I'd like to see a lot more research done on is the sensory problems, and it's real variable. One kid's got sound sensitivity; another one can't tolerate fluorescent lights. I can't stand scratchy clothes.

I'm a guy where my perfect pitch has been altered by the fact that I usually tune up to what's going on. When I was a kid, it was horrible! If two notes were playing right next to each other, and they were dissonant, it would drive me nuts. If it was something that sounded like it was in between notes, it'd make me cringe.

I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.

When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

As anyone who has tinnitus knows, it's not something that you can ignore, and you have to deal with it on a daily basis.

Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.

I hate people eating on film. I hate it even worse on the radio, when people eat on the radio. I just can't stand it.

I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.

For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much.

I was always a shy child and slightly hard of hearing, so music was my outlet.

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

Only dead people need loud music, you know.

If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.

My live sound does not work in the studio, which is a completely different animal. Every little thing is detrimental to the sound. And if someone moves a mic, you've lost it. It's pretty much a case of 'lock the door and set up a police line.'