Erik Satie Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

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

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

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.