With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.
Bela BartokHis pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.
Bela BartokIt may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
Bela Bartok