Musical Signs

Famous quotes containing the words musical and/or signs:

“That vast moth-eaten musical brocade
Created to pretend we never die ...”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)