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

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?

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.

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.

I let it fall, my heart And as it fell, you rose to claim it, It was dark, and I was sober, Until you kissed my lips and you saved me.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

Ecstasy is the energy of spirit. When life flows, ecstasy is natural.

If he full-out flexed, I would probably faint, or jump off the building.

The way of heaven is to help and not harm.

If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.

Don't lose sight of the fact that hip and legs drive the horse forward and the hands merely channel this power by gentle rein aids.

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.