I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
More Quotes from Bela Bartok:
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal.Bela Bartok
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
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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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Competitions are for horses, not artists.
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