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Oh, how worried my umbrella must be to have lost me!
- Erik Satie - on having forgotten his umbrella in the cafe
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.
I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.
(on Debussy's 'Dawn to Noon on the Sea')
Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.
- Erik Satie
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