Quotes from the Movie The Legend of 1900

It wasn't what I saw that stopped me Max... it was what I didn't see.

1900

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...

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

You smoke it. I don't know how.

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

I often thought about him during the war; if only 1900 were here, who knows what he'd do, what he'd say. 'Fuck war' he'd say. But somehow, coming from me, it wasn't the same.

Max

You're never really done for, as long as you've got a good story and someone to tell it to.

Max

Sometimes that is the way you have to do it: you go right back to the beginning.

Max

My son grow up to be a lawyer, I swear I'll kill him myself.

Danny Boodmann