Erik Satie Quotes

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

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

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.

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

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

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

Experience is a form of paralysis.

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

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

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

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

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

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

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

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.