When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.
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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.Erik Satie
I often regret having come into this petty world not that I hate the world. No ... I love the world, I love high society and even the demimonde, since I'm a sort of demimondaine myself. But what have I come to do on this Earth, which is so earthly and so earthy Do I have duties to perform here have I come here to carry out a missiona commission Have I been sent here to amuse myself to enjoy myself a little ... to forget the miseries of a beyond, which I no longer remember Am I not unwelcome here What should I say to all these questions Thinking, almost from the moment of my arrival, that I was doing some good down here, I began to play a few musical airs which I myself had invented.... All my troubles stemmed from there.
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Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.
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Why attack God He may be as miserable as we are.
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Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.
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