Player Piano Quotes

• Quiero estar lo más cerca posible del borde sin pasarme. En el borde se ven cosas que no se ven desde el centro.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Want, Kind, Standing On The Edge

  FaceBook post byKurt Vonnegut from Oct 01, 2012

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• I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

  William Gaddis

  Player, Piano Music, Piano Playing

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• Y un paso atrás, después de dar un giro equivocado, es un paso en la dirección correcta.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Responsibility, Steps, Turns

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.312, Dial Press

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• La vida es como un piano. Lo que saques de ella depende de cómo la toques.

  Tom Lehrer

  Life, Music, Play

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• Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Technology, Electronics, Live By

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.60, Dial Press

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• Al principio de mi vida tuve que elegir entre ser pianista en un prostíbulo o político. A decir verdad, apenas hay diferencia.

  Harry S. Truman

  Life, Music, Wisdom

  "El ingenio y la sabiduría de Harry Truman".

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• Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Firsts, Bigs

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.84, Dial Press

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• Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Guy, Matter, Informers

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.310, Dial Press

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• Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Science, Space, Progress

  The Sirens of Titan epigraph (1959)

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• Soy doctor en mierda de vaca, mierda de cerdo y mierda de gallina...... Cuando ustedes, doctores, sepan lo que quieren, me encontrarán en el granero paleando mi tesis.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Médicos, Graneros, Quieren

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• Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

  Frédéric Chopin

  Life, Music, Piano

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• Uno se cansa del papel que se supone que tienen los críticos en esta cultura: Es como ser el pianista en una casa de putas; no tienes ningún control sobre la acción que ocurre arriba.

  Robert Hughes

  Música, Cansado, Reproductor

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• Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

  Billy Joel

  Music, Player, Thinking

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• The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

  Thelonious Monk

  Piano, Notes, Pianist

  "Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original". p. 444. Book by Robin Kelley, 2009.

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• If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

  Harry S. Truman

  Player, Piano, House

  Harry S. Truman (1966). “Good old Harry: the wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman”

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• Decir al pintor que la Naturaleza debe ser tomada tal como es, es decir al músico que puede sentarse al piano.

  James Whistler

  Music, Taken, Player

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

  Richard Ford

  Long, Way, Take Nothing For Granted

  Richard Ford (2012). “Canada”, p.202, A&C Black

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• Cuando tocas, no importa quién te escuche.

  Robert Schumann

  Música, Tocar, Piano

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.10

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• La historia de la industria musical es también, inevitablemente, la historia del desarrollo de la tecnología.
  de la tecnología. Del reproductor de piano al disco de vinilo, de la cinta de carrete al casete, del CD a la descarga digital, estos formatos y dispositivos cambiaron no sólo la forma de consumir música, sino también la manera en que los artistas la creaban.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Artista, Tecnología, Jugador

  "Steve Jobs In Memoriam: Recuerdos y homenajes". www.billboard.com. 05 de octubre de 2011.

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• Vonnegut's earliest novels hint strongly at his familiarity with Wiener's work, The Human Use of Human Beings, especially his first novel, Player Piano (1952), which shows his concern for the social implications of automation, the replacement of human beings with machines.

  David Porush

  Player, Piano, Firsts

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• I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

  John C. Reilly

  Song, Dad, Kids

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• My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

  Mose Allison

  Dad, Player, Self

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. February 04, 2010.

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