Erik Satie Quotations

When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.

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

When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty. I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven. (on Debussy's "Dawn to Noon on the Sea")

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

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

Experience is a form of paralysis.

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.

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 liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

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

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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