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)

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

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