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