Erik Satie Quotes

#1. I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

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#2. 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.

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

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

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

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

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

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#10. 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).

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

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

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#13. Experience is a form of paralysis.

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

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#15. 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.

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

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

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

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