Boris Vian Quotes

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• 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…
• I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.
• Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• Chansons possibles ou impossibles
• The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

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