Erik Satie Quotes

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• Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux
• 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.
• 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…
• 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,…
• Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.
• Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.
• I have never written a note I didn't mean.
• My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera.
• I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.
• Experience is a form of paralysis.
• 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 am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.
• Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.
• The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.
• 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…
• 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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