It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
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 BartokIn art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Bela Bartok