Quotes About Bela Bartok

#1. It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

Bela Bartok

#2. The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

Ahmet Ertegun

#3. I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

#4. What I took away from my 'Flashforward' experience is that when you're doing a serialized mythology show, you put your foot on the gas, and you do not take it off.

Marc Guggenheim

#5. God always offers us a second chance in life.

Paulo Coelho

#6. 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

#7. I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

Temple Grandin

#8. By the time I had complete my 22nd year, I was a new man - an atheist.

Bela Bartok

#9. The loved one suffers. All loved ones suffer. Love is not enough to prevent this. Love is not enough. Love is enough. The thing that you wished for. Was this it?
Here endeth the lesson.

Kelly Link

#10. 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

#11. Fight well," he said distantly, "and remember you are Englishmen!"
"Welshmen," someone intervened. Sir Roger visibly flinched at that and then, without another word, led his three men-at-arms from the church.

Bernard Cornwell

#12. If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

Neil Gaiman

#13. I'd made water shoot out of the bathroom fixtures. I didn't understand how. But the toilets responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing.

Rick Riordan

#14. After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!

Maria Semple

#15. With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.

Bela Bartok

#16. Competitions are for horses, not artists.

Bela Bartok

#17. Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create.

Akiva Goldsman

#18. I love you so very much I don't even mind that life made me wait so long to find you. The waiting only made the finding sweeter.

Nancy Reagan

#19. Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and history generally, and should be centered on acting in plays rather than just exercises, improvisations, monologues, or even scenes.

Richard Hornby

#20. In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

Bela Bartok

#21. I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'

Gabby Douglas

#22. There is scarcely a person on Earth who has not heard of UFOs; many believe in them. Few, however, can say much about them. Fewer still-even believers-can find much time to think about them. Life finds a way of keeping us occupied with other matters.

Richard M. Dolan