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

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

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.

Conflicts need to be resolved at the earliest.

Sooner or later we're all gone, so no one bothers getting attached.

And he ate up all her vision, as he had done the first day she saw him so long ago.

...You know, one good apple can spoil the rest, ” Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

I love Italy so much, I want to change it in order to make sure it can be all that it can.

We should also start taking care of the future, not just the heritage.

The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they lead.

There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at.

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.