Quotes from Erik Satie

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

Everybody offers to buy one a drink; but nobody ever dreams of buying one a sandwich.

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

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

Je m'appelle Erik Satie comme tout le monde.

The dandy cleans his monocle every day, a silver monocle with a lens of smoked gold, given him by a beautiful lady but, suddenly overcome with sadness, he has lost the monocle case.

Ah, the cows..

Isn't a bookshop, to some extent, a temple to Browsing?

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.

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

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. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

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