Boris Vian
Boris Vian
Boris Vianwas a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release. Vian's other fiction, published under his real name, featured a highly individual writing style with numerous made-up words, subtle wordplay and surrealistic plots. His novel L'Écume des joursis the best known of these works and one...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth10 March 1920
CountryFrance
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.
Mais enfin, bande de critiques, les livres que vous ne comprenez pas ne vaudraient-ils pas au moins que vous les signaliez? For heaven's sake, gang of critics, don't the books which you do not understand at least deserve recognition?
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.
Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.
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
Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.
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.
I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.
The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.