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Top 15 Boris Vian Quotes (2025 Update)

Boris Vian Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

Boris Vian Quote: “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?”

2. “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?”

Boris Vian Quote: “Savoir qu’il existe des passions et ne pas les ressentir, c’est affreux.”

3. “Savoir qu’il existe des passions et ne pas les ressentir, c’est affreux.”

Boris Vian Quote: “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.”

4. “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 Quote: “La historia es enteramente verdadera, ya que me la he inventado yo de cabo a rabo.”

5. “La historia es enteramente verdadera, ya que me la he inventado yo de cabo a rabo.”

Boris Vian Quote: “Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.”

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

Boris Vian Quote: “Rien n’est plus parfait, plus acheve qu’un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.”

7. “Rien n’est plus parfait, plus acheve qu’un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.”

Boris Vian Quote: “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.”

8. “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 Quote: “I’m not interested in the happiness of all men, but only in the happiness of each.”

9. “I’m not interested in the happiness of all men, but only in the happiness of each.”

Boris Vian Quote: “Per me, ciccino mio.”

10. “Per me, ciccino mio.”

Boris Vian Quote: “It’s not their fault. It’s because they’ve been taught that ‘Work is holy, good and beautiful. It counts above everything else, and the workers alone will inherit the earth.’ Only things have been arranged so that they have to spend all their time working and there’s no time left for the rest of it to come true.”

11. “It’s not their fault. It’s because they’ve been taught that ‘Work is holy, good and beautiful. It counts above everything else, and the workers alone will inherit the earth.’ Only things have been arranged so that they have to spend all their time working and there’s no time left for the rest of it to come true.”

Boris Vian Quote: “I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.”

12. “I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.”

Boris Vian Quote: “Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key.”

13. “Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key.”

Boris Vian Quote: “I’m full of despair and yet, at the same time, I’m horribly happy. It’s a nice kind of feeling to want something as badly as that.”

14. “I’m full of despair and yet, at the same time, I’m horribly happy. It’s a nice kind of feeling to want something as badly as that.”

Boris Vian Quote: “Of course, it’s fun to play with Blacks.”

15. “Of course, it’s fun to play with Blacks.”

Boris Vian Quote: “Tout ce qui n’est ni une couleur, ni un parfum, ni une musique, c’est de l’enfantillage.”

16. “Tout ce qui n’est ni une couleur, ni un parfum, ni une musique, c’est de l’enfantillage.”

Boris Vian Quote: “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?”

17. “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?”

Boris Vian Quote: “Chansons possibles ou impossibles.”

18. “Chansons possibles ou impossibles.”

Boris Vian Quote: “Avevo la coscienza in disordine. Ho fatto cilecca in un bel po’ di cose.”

19. “Avevo la coscienza in disordine. Ho fatto cilecca in un bel po’ di cose.”

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