Sound, Music And Damage To Our Lives

“I know of numerous composers who suffer from tinnitus — that ringing orother sound in the ears which never shuts off. And even violinists tendto end up with hearing damage in the left ear, since that is the oneclosest to the sound of the instrument. It is, of course, the sounds wedon’t make ourselves that we are most disturbed by. Noise fromneighbours can be fatal. It is not unknown for disputes to end in murderor suicide.”   – Irish Times