midipoet

“Expression has never been an inherent property of music…If, as is nearly always the case, music appears to express something, this is only an illusion and not a reality…Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present. By the imperfection of his nature, man is doomed to submit to the passage of time—to its categories of past and future—without ever being able to give substance and therefore stability, to the category of the present.”

— Igor Stravinsky (via calais-)

(Source: atowninfrance)