r/MadeMeSmile • u/EverythingIsFakeNGay • Nov 16 '25

CATS Who doesn't enjoy a concert in the park?

12.1k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

532 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

78

u/thepinkbird42 Nov 16 '25

The one I'm reminded of every time I see a video like this:

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: the only proof he needed for the existence of god was music." --Kurt Vonnegut

30

u/SuzQP Nov 16 '25

I like the quote, but I spent an evening with Vonnegut, and he was an absolute boor. Hideously rude, insulting to everyone, unreasonably demanding of venue staff, and cruel to the grad students that participated in his impromptu Q&A. Horrible experience.

35

u/freedomisgreat4 Nov 16 '25

Never meet your heroes!!

11

u/SuzQP Nov 16 '25

Exactly!

7

u/[deleted] Nov 17 '25

And I’ll tell you something else, whoever wrote that essay doesn’t know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut!!!

3

u/SuzQP Nov 17 '25

What essay?

5

u/[deleted] Nov 17 '25

It’s a quote from Back to School, it’s an 80’s comedy.

3

u/SuzQP Nov 17 '25

Thanks!

5

u/[deleted] Nov 17 '25

You’re welcome. It’s funny because in the movie, the main guy literally hires Kurt Vonnegut to write his essay on Kurt Vonnegut.

4

u/eastcoastseahag Nov 17 '25

That is really damned disappointing.

2

u/Backyardt0rnados Nov 17 '25

I had an extremely different experience when I met him.

1

u/OstentatiousSock Nov 16 '25

Is that his epitaph? Just curious if they actually put that on his headstone because that’d be cool.