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

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.

Chansons possibles ou impossibles

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.

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.

The truth, the all moving magic, the single handed spark of it all wasI found art. And this saved my life.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

I'm playing all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order

Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.

He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.