Creative Quotations from . . .
Erik Satie
(1866-1925) born on May 17
French composer. "He is remembered for his avant-garde works for the piano, e.g., "Socrate," 1918 and for influencing Debussy and Ravel."
 
   
F
When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty. I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing."

R
"Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself."
A
"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."
N
"Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk."
K
Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Erik Satie," by Pierre-Daniel Templier, ch. 1."
R: ""Bulletin des Editions Musicales," Dec 1913."
A: "In "Erik Satie," by Pierre-Daniel Templier."
N: "In "The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases," by Donald Bolander, 1987."
K: "In "1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said," ed. Robert Byrne, 1988."
   



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