Musicians
- Allen, Kris (born 1985), singer-songwriter, winner of American Idol – the eighth season
- Broonzy, Big Bill (1903–1958), blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
- Brown, Shirley (born 1947), soul singer
- Burgess, Sonny, Sun recording artist
- Caldwell, Sarah (born 1924), opera conductor and director, violinist
- Campbell, Glen (born 1936), country singer, songwriter, and actor
- Cash, Johnny (1932–2003), country singer and songwriter
- Cramer, Floyd, musician, most known for his piano instrumental "Last Date"
- Dash, Roscoe (born 1990), rapper
- DeMent, Iris (born 1961), country/folk singer and songwriter
- Dickinson, Jim (born 1941), musician and producer
- Ditto, Beth (born 1981), singer with The Gossip
- Dorough, Bob (born 1923), Jazz Musician and Voice of School House Rock
- Driftwood, Jimmy (1907–1998), folk musician/songwriter, wrote "The Battle of New Orleans"
- Falco, Tav, Musical performer, performance artist, actor, filmmaker, and photographer
- Faulkner, Sanford (1806–1874), wrote fiddle tune "Arkansas Traveler"
- Frizzell, Lefty (1928–1975), Country music singer and songwriter
- Green, Al (born 1946), singer
- Hammer, Charles Christian (1953–2004), classical guitarist
- Hawkins, Ronnie (born 1935), rock musician
- Helm, Levon (1940–2012), rock musician
- Hendricks, Barbara (born 1948), opera singer
- Hilliard, John S. (born 1947), composer
- Holyfield, Wayland (born 1942), songwriter
- Jewell, Buddy, Country musician
- Jordan, Louis (1908–1975), jazz musician and bandleader
- Lawrence, Tracy (born 1968), country musician
- Lee, Amy (born 1981), rock musician
- Lockwood, Robert Jr. (1915–2006), blues musician
- McBeth, W. Francis (1933-2012), composer
- Montana, Patsy (1914–1996), country musician
- Moody, Ben (born 1980), rock musician
- Moore, Justin (born 1984), country musician
- Moorman, Charlotte (1933–1991), cellist, performance artist
- Nancarrow, Conlon (1912–1997), composer
- Ne-Yo, R&B musician, songwriter
- Oslin, K.T. (born 1941), country musician
- Paris, Twila (born 1958), gospel musician
- Porter, Art Jr. (1961–1996), jazz saxophonist
- Porter, Art Sr. (1934–1993), jazz pianist
- Raye, Collin (born 1960), country musician
- Rich, Charlie (1932–1995), rockabilly, jazz, blues, country, and gospel musician and pianist
- Sanders, Pharoah (born 1940), jazz saxophonist
- Still, William Grant (1895–1978), composer
- Taylor, Johnnie (1938–2000), vocalist
- Twitty, Conway (1933–1993), rock and roll and country music singer
- Utley, Michael (born 1985), songwriter, actor, musician, bit actor, member Jimmy Buffet and the Coral Reefer Band and Club Trini
- Walker, Junior (1931-1995), Motown saxophonist
- Warfield, William (1920–2002), vocalist
- Williams, Lenny (born 1945), singer
- Williams, Otis, singer
- Williamson, Sonny Boy (1899–1965), blues musician
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Famous quotes containing the word musicians:
“As if the musicians did not so much play the little phrase as execute the rites required by it to appear, and they proceeded to the necessary incantations to obtain and prolong for a few instants the miracle of its evocation, Swann, who could no more see the phrase than if it belonged to an ultraviolet world ... Swann felt it as a presence, as a protective goddess and a confidante to his love, who to arrive to him ... had clothed the disguise of this sonorous appearance.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“We stand in the tumult of a festival.
What festival? This loud, disordered mooch?
These hospitaliers? These brute-like guests?
These musicians dubbing at a tragedy,
A-dub, a-dub, which is made up of this:
That there are no lines to speak? There is no play.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)