Erik Satie Quotes

Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

Last year I gave several lectures on "Intelligence and Musicality among Animals" ... Today I am going to speak to you about "Intelligence and Musicality among Critics" ... The subject is much the same, with some modifications, of course.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly.

We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another school....We are not familiar with their didactic works. Perhaps they don't have any.

My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera.

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.