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.
Source: In Erik Satie, by Pierre-Daniel Templier.
-- Erik Satie, (May 17 1866-1925), French composer; He is remembered for his avant-garde works for the piano, e.g., Socrate, 1918 and for influencing Debussy and Ravel.