Music
- James Murphy (electronic musician) (born 1970), American, leader of LCD Soundsystem
- James Murphy (guitarist) (born 1969), American heavy metal guitarist
- Jimmy Murphy (musician) (1925–1981), American Country musician
- Jimmy Murphy (song), a song, possibly of music-hall origin, referencing the 1798 rebellion, which occurred largely in Wexford
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)