Chansons possibles ou impossibles

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

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.

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

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Serve God and get grace to serve people

Happiness is a state of mind. your state of mind. So you should have some say in it

Don't ask whether it's going to be easy. Ask whether it's going to be worth it.

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

Easy roads make sleepy travellers.

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.

You're getting your weird all over me.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.