Creative Quotations from . . . I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing. 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.
Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.
He may be as miserable as we are. Scroll down for sources of quotations and special search engines. See also CQ's recommended links to biographical websites Satie Search the Web. Robert Byrne, 1988.