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Competitions are for horses, not artists.

— Béla Bartók Piano Competitions: Talent Hunt or Sport?‎ by Carl Battaglia in The Saturday Review (1962)

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Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal.

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

The Enjoyment of Music : An Introduction to Perceptive Listening‎ (1955)

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