The Legend of 1900 quotes
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Max
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Take piano: keys begin, keys end. You know there are 88 of them. Nobody can tell you any different. They are not infinite. You're infinite... And on those keys, the music that you can make... is infinite. I like that. That I can live by...
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Winter comes, you wish it was summer. Summer comes, you live in dread of winter. That's why we never tire of travel.
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Land? Land is a ship too big for me, it's a woman too beautiful, it's a voyage too long, perfume too strong...
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1900: Hey, Max, gimme a cigarette, will you?
Max: You're not handling this well.
1900: Just gimme a cigarette.
Max: You don't smoke. What is the matter with you? You could lick this guy with one hand, come on!
1900: You gonna gimme a cigarette?
Max: We're gonna be chucking coal a couple a hundred years and all you can say is...
1900: Give me a ****ing cigarette, will you?
Max: You're not handling this well.
1900: Just gimme a cigarette.
Max: You don't smoke. What is the matter with you? You could lick this guy with one hand, come on!
1900: You gonna gimme a cigarette?
Max: We're gonna be chucking coal a couple a hundred years and all you can say is...
1900: Give me a ****ing cigarette, will you?
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Christ, did you... did you see the streets, just the streets? There were thousands of them! Then how you do it down there, how do you choose just one... one woman, one house, one landscape to look at, one way to die...?
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Sometimes that is the way you have to do it: you go right back to the beginning.
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Jelly Roll Morton: I believe you're sitting in my seat.
1900: You're the one that invented jazz, right?
Jelly Roll Morton: That's what they say. And you're the one who can't play without the ocean under his ass, right?
1900: That's what I say.
1900: You're the one that invented jazz, right?
Jelly Roll Morton: That's what they say. And you're the one who can't play without the ocean under his ass, right?
1900: That's what I say.
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It wasn't what I saw that stopped me Max... it was what I didn't see.
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Danny Boodmann: My son grow up to be a lawyer, I swear I'll kill him myself.
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I often thought about him during the war; if only 1900 were here, who knows what he'd do, what he'd say. '**** war' he'd say. But somehow, coming from me, it wasn't the same.
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And **** jazz, too.
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**** the regulations!
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You rolled out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, millions and billions of keys that never end. And that's the truth Max, that they never end. That keyboard is infinite... and if that keyboard is infinite, then on that keyboard there is no music you can play. You're sitting on the wrong bench... That is God's piano.