Quotes About Erik Satie

#1. When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.

King Krule

#2. Erik Satie died on July 1, 1925; his last words were 'Ah, the cows ...

John Richardson

#3. Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.

Jose Bergamin

#4. I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.

Elizabeth Jagger

#5. Can the theater teach us to wait? To forestall our satisfaction? Poems teach us how to wait. The natural world makes us wait. Erik Satie teaches us how to wait. And so does much music. Will YouTube teach us how to wait? Will YouTube teach us how to die?

Sarah Ruhl

#6. There is a complexity and layering that goes on with this kind of thing, so the music is slightly repetitive and when I say repetitive it's in the same tradition as people like Steve Reich or Erik Satie or even WC.

DJ Spooky

#7. I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.

Jim Woodring

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

Erik Satie

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

Erik Satie

#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).

Erik Satie

#11. [A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks ... who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise to affirmative action and other government programs.

Thomas Sowell

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

Erik Satie

#13. If you can say without a doubt, "I really like this!" no matter what anyone else says, and if you like yourself for having it, then ignore what other people think.

Marie Kondo

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

Erik Satie

#15. Experience is a form of paralysis.

Erik Satie

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

Erik Satie

#17. It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from want of love.

Louise J. Kaplan

#18. We've loved.
We've lost.
And now we're just finding our footing again. Us again. And it's never felt so good to lose myself in someone so I can find myself again.

K. Bromberg

#19. 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.

Erik Satie

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

Erik Satie

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

Erik Satie

#22. There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.

Buzz Aldrin

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

Erik Satie

#24. It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

Craig Ferguson

#25. I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I'm willing to believe that there's something pretty magical out there.

Rachel McAdams

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

Erik Satie

#27. 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.

Erik Satie

#28. But my pretty little Gwen ... me and her daddy ... Then she purred. Seriously. Purred.

Shelly Laurenston

#29. 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.

Erik Satie

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

Erik Satie

#31. We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast

Jim Rohn

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

Erik Satie

#33. 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.

Erik Satie

#34. Life and death aren't as different from each other as I thought they were. This isn't like walking into a new country. This is like walking into a new room in the same house. This is like sharing a hallway and the same row of framed family pictures, but there's a glass wall between.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#35. As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.

Manmohan Singh

#36. I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

Bruce Bennett

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

Erik Satie