Erik Satie Fansite

 

Erik Satie Quotes

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

• [On Debussy's "Dawn to Noon on the Sea"] I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

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

• [On forgetting his umbrella at a cafe] Oh, how worried my umbrella must be to have lost me!

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

• 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.

 

Useful Links:

mfiles - the music files

Research Project on Satie

Music Academy Online

Francis Poulenc.com - French composer and member of Les Six