Music fills our lives with joy and sorrow, and sometimes with tinnitus and other lasting hearing problems. Musicians have larger auditory areas (amHG) in the left hemisphere. Neonates already show a right hemisphere dominance for musical sounds in fMRI studies. Training young children for 15 months to musical sounds showed increased right hemispheric auditory areas (notable HG) which size increase corresponded with increased melodic/rhythmic discrimination. Music making may also increase attention, memory, cognitive processing and communication skills. The bad part of listening to music is the frequent occurrence of hearing loss and tinnitus in musicians, classical as well as jazz and pop, in people working at music venues and people frequenting loud music performances. It has been suggested that musicians are better able to deal with the cognitive aspects of resulting problems such as understanding speech in noise on the basis of their augmented discrimination of temporal aspects of sound.