“Most musicians don’t have a clue about this. They start playing music in fourth or fifth grade and nobody mentions the damage they might be causing themselves. A musician who can’t hear is like a painter who can’t see or a sculptor who can’t feel. Not being able to hear the nuances in the music he/she plays – the upper harmonics, the colors. I just don’t have the same confidence I used to. I don’t have the same control. That’s the most frustrating part to me.”
—  Kris Chesky, Trumpet, and Research Assistant Professor, University of North Texas Center for Music and Medicine