Emil Haraszti commenting on the music of Bela Bartok His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct ... these are all echoes ... of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.
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Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal.Bela Bartok
I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
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Competitions are for horses, not artists.
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In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
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