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When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.

— Kurt Elling

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

— Roger Daltrey

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

— J. K. Rowling

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

— Florence Welch

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.

— Eve Best

Whenever I get an idea for a song, even before jotting down the notes, I can hear it in the orchestra, I can smell it in the scenery, I can see the kind of actor who will sing it, and I am aware of an audience listening to it.

— Richard Rodgers

I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!

— Joseph Mawle

We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.

— James Blake

But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

✗Opposing Perspectives

When you hear a great two-track of a performance in Carnegie Hall, let's say, it sounds like you're right there at that moment. It's true to reality. And the closer it gets, once it gets too technical, it becomes very tinny to hear notes. It doesn't sound right. It has to be natural.

— Tony Bennett