Boris Vian Quotes

"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."
- Boris Vian
(Related: Music, Love, Girls, Pretty, Ugly)

"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."
- Boris Vian
(Related: Music)

"Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks."
- Boris Vian
(Related: Fun, Play)

"I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think."
- Boris Vian

"The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52."
- Boris Vian
(Related: Life, Moments)