Erik Satie Quotes

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.

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

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

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.

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

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).

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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