When I was young, they'd say: "When you're fifty you'll see." I'm fifty. But I still don't see anything.

I never read a newspaper that reflects my opinion: as I would find my opinion distorted.

If I have to follow someone, I think I can say it's just going to be myself.

The state of poverty is never properly savoured and that's a sign of the most serious disorders.

If a man talks to you about contemporary "decay", look at his face.

I don't understand why money has no smell, given that with money you have everything.

Man is meant to dream as much as I am meant to have a wooden leg.

There is no Satie school. Satisme would not know how to exist, it would find me hostile. There must be no slavery in art.

A true musician must submit to his art;... he must rise above human misery;... he has to find courage within himself,.. and only from within himself.
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