1900：That wasn't the problem. It wasn't what I saw that stopped me, Max. It was what I didn't see. You understand that? What I didn't see...In all that sprawling city, there was everything except an end. There was no end. What I did not see was where the whole thing came to an end, the end of the world.
1900：Take a piano. Keys begin, keys end. You know there are 88 of them, nobody can tell you any different. They are not infinite, you are infinite. And on those keys the music that you can make is infinite. I like that. That I can live by. You get me up on that gangway and you roll out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, millions of billions of keys that never end and that's the truth, Max, and they never end, that keyboard is infinite. If that keyboard is infinite, on that keyboard there's no music you can play. You're sitting on the wrong bench. That's God's piano.
1900：Did you see the streets, just the streets? There were thousands of them! How do you do it down there, how do you choose just one? One woman, one house, one piece of land to call your own, one landscape to look at, one way to die. All that world just weighing down on you don't even know where it comes to an end. Aren't you ever just scared of breaking you apart and just thought of it, the enormity of living in it?
1900：I was born on this ship, and the world passed me by, but two thousand people at a time. And there were wishes here, but never more than fit between prow and stern. You played out your happiness but on a piano that was not infinite. I learned to live that way. Land? Land is a ship too big for me, it's a woman too beautiful, it's a voyage too long, perfume too strong. It's music I don't know how to make. I can never get off this ship. At best, I can step off my life. After all, I don't exist for anyone. You're exception, Max. You're the only one who knows I'm here. You're a minority, and you'd better get used to it. Forgive me, my friend, but I'm not getting off.
我记得，康恩听完他说的这些话之后泪流满面，可他却微笑着劝说康恩，让他不要难过。可见他内心是非常明白自己要的是什么，他很坚定的在走他的路。前面我说过我是因为康恩说的这句话：“Sooner or later, all stories end .迟早，所有的故事总会有一个结局的。”才看这部电影的，我没想到，最后，却是因为这句话让我泪流满面。一个如此有才华的钢琴家，在虚无的键盘上弹奏着他生命的乐章，坦然的面对死亡，一声爆炸，所有的一切都灰飞烟灭，化为乌有。作者: 一代宗师 时间: 2014-6-5 20:18 http://u.sanwen.net/subject/1553505.html
即使弹琴胜过爵士乐的始祖Jelly Roll Morto，让max名声大噪，唱片出版商希望为他录制唱片，并保证他会名利双收，他的内心依然平静，安于生活和音乐带给他的快乐。直到他遇到一个朴素而迷人的女孩。那一天他正在录制唱片，女孩顺着窗子向里看，和他四目相对，他立刻爱上了她。随兴而发弹奏了一曲为爱情的柔情似水的曲子。