Player Piano Quotes

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

And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

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

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

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

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

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.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

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

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

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

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.

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.

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

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.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

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.

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.