--- title: "5 Bartok Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 5 Bartok quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Bartok sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/310/nat-hentoff-1615_bartok_miranda-hentoff-was-teaching-once-at-lin_381400.png" --- > [ \[Miranda Hentoff\] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nat-hentoff/miranda-hentoff-was-teaching-once-at-lincoln-center-and-the-hall-was/) [Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nat-hentoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/310/nat-hentoff-1615_bartok_miranda-hentoff-was-teaching-once-at-lin_381400.png) > [ \[Phil wood\] put on some \[Igor\] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-gordon/phil-wood-put-on-some-igor-stravinsky-and-say-to-follow-the-score/) [Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-gordon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee1/jon-gordon-1655_20th-century_phil-wood-put-on-some-igor-stravinsky-an_1463042.jpg) > [Many people believe that composing 'Concerto for Orchestra' kept Bartok alive through his final years of a battle with leukemia.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-larry-granger/many-people-believe-that-composing-concerto-for-orchestra-kept-bartok/) [John Larry Granger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-larry-granger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae2/john-larry-granger-249388_inspiration_many-people-believe-that-composing-conce_1976500.jpg) > [If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-corder/if-the-reader-were-so-rash-as-to-purchase-any-of-bela-bartok-s/) [Frederick Corder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-corder/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/094/frederick-corder-238330_bartok_if-the-reader-were-so-rash-as-to-purchas_2625047.jpg) > [As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-sherman/as-bartok-put-it-so-succinctly-competitions-are-for-horses-nothing/) [Russell Sherman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-sherman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/russell-sherman-29088_appetite_as-bartok-put-it-so-succinctly-competiti_2630772.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bartok/#itemlist", "name": "Bartok Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she was explaining how [Béla] Bartok composed his second piano concerto. And she explained how the music was interwoven with the rhythms and what he had in his mind. 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