Competitions are for horses, not artists. Bela Bartok More Quotes by Bela Bartok More Quotes From Bela Bartok It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach. Bela Bartok composer may believe 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 idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means. Bela Bartok order mean ideas With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure. Bela Bartok maturity simple wish His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche. Bela Bartok echoes music years I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing. Bela Bartok absolutely-nothing music In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. Bela Bartok development matter art Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable. Bela Bartok tone creative self
