Erik Satie quotes:

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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

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 poetry.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

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