Music Quotes by Milan Kundera

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder…

— Milan Kundera

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

— Milan Kundera

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

— Milan Kundera

“It’s a vicious circle, people are going deaf because music is played louder and louder. But because they’re going deaf it has…

— Milan Kundera

“and I felt happy inside these songs (...) where sorrow is not lightness, laughter is not grimace, love is not laughable, and…

— Milan Kundera

“Nowadays, people no longer know Beethoven's Ninth from concerts, but form the for lines of the 'Ode to Joy' that they hear…

— Milan Kundera

“Human lives are conmposed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which…

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“He considered music a liberating force: it liberated him from loneliness, introversion, the dust of the library; it opened the door of…

— Milan Kundera

No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's…

— Milan Kundera

“Since its beginnings, Western music is bound, by an insurmountable convention, to the need to express subjectivity. It stands against the harsh…

— Milan Kundera

“The Transformation of music into noise was a planetary process by which mankind was entering the historical phase of total ugliness. The…

— Milan Kundera

“[Human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual tranforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which…

— Milan Kundera

Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their…

— Milan Kundera

“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves…

— Milan Kundera

“Abroad, she discovered that the transformation of music into noise was a planetary process by which mankind was entering the historical phase…

— Milan Kundera

“What he yearned for at that moment, vaguely but with all his might, was unbounded music, absolute sound, a pleasant and happy…

— Milan Kundera

“Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk,…

— Milan Kundera

“They [human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitious occurrence (Beethoven’s music, death…

— Milan Kundera

“If in the past people would listen to music out of love for music, nowadays it roars everywhere and all the time,…

— Milan Kundera

“They [human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence (Beethoven’s music, death…

— Milan Kundera

“As early as 1930 Schoenberg wrote: "Radio is an enemy, a ruthless enemy marching irresistibly forward, and any resistance is hopeless"; it…

— Milan Kundera