Boris Vian famous quotes

04-17-2025

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
-- Boris Vian

#Music #Girl #New Orleans
Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.
-- Boris Vian

#Individual #Torts #Mass
Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheveÂ Â qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.
-- Boris Vian

#Perfect #Plus
Mais enfin, bande de critiques, les livres que vous ne comprenez pas ne vaudraient-ils pas au moins que vous les signaliez? For heaven's sake, gang of critics, don't the books which you do not understand at least deserve recognition?
-- Boris Vian

#Book #Heaven #Sake
Chansons possibles ou impossibles
-- Boris Vian
Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?
-- Boris Vian

#Moving #Fall #Simple
The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.
-- Boris Vian

#White #Black #Elements
One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.
-- Boris Vian

#Inspiration #Musical #Fans
Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.
-- Boris Vian

#Fun #Play
I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.
-- Boris Vian

#Thinking #Trumpets
Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me"Â me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.
-- Boris Vian

#Men #Design #Femme

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