Erik Satie Quotes

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

  Erik Satie

  Life

  Erik Satie, IVAM Centre Julio González (1996). “Erik Satie: del chat noir a dadá : IVAM Centre Julio González, 19 septiembre-10 noviembre 1996”

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

  Erik Satie

  Music, Pieces, Walks

  "The Writings of Erik Satie".

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

  Erik Satie

  Modesty, Notorious, Superiors

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• 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

  People, Waiting, Fifty

  Erik Satie, Nigel E. Wilkins (1980). “The Writings of Erik Satie”, Da Capo Press

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• Experience is a form of paralysis.

  Erik Satie

  Form, Paralysis

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

  Erik Satie

  Mean, Notes, Written

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• I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

  Erik Satie

  Tired, Heart, Broken

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

  Erik Satie

  Age, World, Young

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• 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

  Animal, Years, Today

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

  Erik Satie

  God, May, Miserable

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

  Erik Satie

  Inspiring, Animal, Musician

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• 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

  Animal, Eggs, White

  "Erik Satie". Book by Rollo H. Myers, New York: Dover, p.135, 1968.

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

  Erik Satie

  Should Have, Sauerkraut, Should

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

  Erik Satie

  Rooms, Evolve, Small Things

  "The man in a velvet suit Lucy Daniel". Telegraph Review, January 25, 2014.

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

  Erik Satie

  Dream, Opera

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• 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

  Music, School, Animal

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• I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

  Erik Satie

  Quarters, Eleven, Bits

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

  Erik Satie

  Moving, Character, Atmosphere

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