Best 15 quotes of Erik Satie on MyQuotes

Experience is a form of paralysis.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

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).

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

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Ah, the cows..

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