1900 It wasn't what I saw that stopped me Max... it was what I didn't see.
Most-quoted character in The Legend of 1900 (1998): in 10 of its 19 quotes
A line from 1900Take 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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9 quotes 1900 1900 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.
1900 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...?
1900 Land? Land is a ship too big for me, it's a woman too beautiful, it's a voyage too long, perfume too strong...
1900 [after his grand finale on the piano, he lights the cigarette on the strings of the piano, walks to Jelly Roll Morton and says]
You smoke it. I don't know how.
1900 **** the regulations!
1900 And **** jazz, too.
1900 Winter comes, you wish it was summer. Summer comes, you live in dread of winter. That's why we never tire of travel.
1900 There was always one. One guy alone who would see her first. Maybe he was just sitting there eating or walking on the deck. Maybe he was just fixing his pants. He'd look up for a second. A quick glance out to sea and he'd see her. Then he'd just stand there rooted to the spot, his heart racing. And every time, every damn time I swear. He'd turn to us, towards the ship, towards everybody and scream... America!!!
