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.

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.

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

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

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