Erik Satie Quotes
1866 - 1925
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nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
about artist/model Suzanne Valadon at the end of their love affair 
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More Erik Satie Quotes
"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)."
Erik Satie— Quoted by Rollo H. Myers (1968). Erik Satie, p.135. New York: Dover.See also Socrate for the context of this quote.
"Étude pour un buste de M. Erik SATIE peint par lui-même, avec une pensée: je suis venu au monde très jeune dans un temps très vieux."
Erik Satie— Translation: Study for a bust of Mr Erik Satie painted by himself, with a thought: I came into the world very young in a very old age.(Written to accompany a self-portrait caricature drawn by himself - see image)
"It is divided into three movements, which closely approximate a symphony in form. The first, 'From Dawn to Noon on the Sea', begins with a thin, hauntingly grayed quality and grows animated in such a spiritual manner that it is hard to see how Debussy's friend Erik Satie could have forsaken his customary elegance to remark that he particularly enjoyed the part at a quarter past eleven."
Erik Satie— From the (unattributed) sleeve-notes on the 1988 RCA Victor release of Claude Debussy's La Mer.
I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly.
Erik Satie— The man in a velvet suit Lucy Daniel Telegraph Review January 25 2014.
Postulez en vous-même.
Erik Satie— Wonder about yourself.
Munissez-vous de clairvoyance.
Erik Satie— Provide yourself with shrewdness.
Seul, pendant un instant.
Erik Satie— Alone, for a moment.
Très perdu.
Erik Satie— Very lost.
Ouvrez la tête.
Erik Satie— Open your head.
Superstitieusement.
Erik Satie— Superstitiously.
D'une manière très particulière.
Erik Satie— In a very particular way.
Léger comme un œuf.
Erik Satie— Light as an egg.
Comme un rossignol qui aurait mal aux dents.
Erik Satie— Embryon desséché d'Holoturie, 1913Like a nightingale with a toothache.
Citation de la célèbre mazurka de SCHUBERT
Erik Satie— Citing of SCHUBERT's famous mazurka.The piece in question that Satie was parodying was actually Chopin's Funeral March. Schubert never wrote any mazurkas that would have been well-known to his contemporaries, whereas Chopin wrote many of these pieces, that were very popular. Schubert was at the time however very often cited, for example, Satie's thentime friend Ravel had published Schubert-imitating Valses Nobles et Sentimentales in 1911.
Modéré, je vous prie.
Erik Satie— Moderately, I insist.
Un peu chaud.
Erik Satie— A little bit warm.
Très turc.
Erik Satie— Very Turkish.
