French Composer Eric Satie took his critics out to the woodshed with this satirical column:

“The mind of a critic is a store – a department store:
One finds in it a little of everything: science, bedding, the arts, traveling rugs, writing paper (foreign and domestic), history, smokers outfits, languages, umbrellas, belles-letters, humour, eyeglasses, perfumery, etc…
The Critic knows everything.”

Click here to read other articles about Eric Satie.


– from Amazon:


Read Eric Satie Goes After the Critics<br>(Vanity Fair, 1921) for Free

dumb music criticsmusic critics are dumbfrench modern music composer Eric Satie insults his criticsmodern music composer Eric Satie articlecriticism for critics 1921anti-critic satiremodern music composer Eric Satie addresses his critics 1921artists get back at criticsanti-music critic satire
Scroll to Top