Bela Bartok Quotes
- Competitions are for horses, not artists.
- In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
- Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical…
- His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old…
- I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.