Chansons possibles ou impossibles

- Boris Vian

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageousl…

- Boris Vian

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

- Boris Vian

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, b…

- Boris Vian

Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

- Boris Vian

Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.

- Boris Vian

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-ha…

- 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 cli…

- Boris Vian

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

- Boris Vian