Music
- Attitude, rapper
- Barry Beckett, pianist and record producer
- Benny Benjamin, drummer
- Bo Bice, singer, American Idol runner-up (Helena, Alabama)
- Oteil Burbridge, bassist
- Dorothy Love Coates, gospel singer
- Sam Dees, soul music singer
- Diana DeGarmo, American Idol 3rd season runner-up
- Big Joe Duskin, blues pianist
- Dennis Edwards, soul music singer
- Al Gallodoro, jazz saxophonist / clarinetist
- Hank Green,alternative rocker
- Hardrock Gunter, rockabilly pioneer
- Lionel Hampton, vibraphonist and bandleader
- Emmylou Harris, singer
- Erskine Hawkins, composer, trumpeter and bandleader
- Haywood Henry, jazz saxophonist / clarinetist
- Taylor Hicks, soul music singer, American Idol winner
- Odetta Holmes, folk singer
- Jo Jones, jazz drummer
- Eddie Kendricks, soul music singer
- Baker Knight, songwriter and bandleader
- Sammy Lowe, jazz trumpeter and arranger
- Rebecca Luker, Broadway singer, actress
- Gucci Mane, rapper
- Maylene and the Sons of Disaster,Southern rock/metalcore band
- Johnny O'Neal, jazz pianist
- Avery Parrish, composer and jazz pianist
- Hank Penny, Western swing musician
- Ray Reach, jazz vocalist and pianist
- Dan Sartain, rock musician
- Johnny Smith, jazz guitarist
- Ruben Studdard, singer, American Idol winner
- Sun Ra, jazz composer and bandleader
- Maria Taylor, singer
- Paul Williams, soul music singer
- Tammy Wynette, country singer
- Through the Sparks, indie rock band
- Verbena (band), indie rock band
- Wild Sweet Orange, indie rock band
- Rickey Smiley, Comedian, actor, and radio host
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)
“Taylor, the Shakespeare of divines.
His words are music in my ear,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“As I define it, rock & roll is dead. The attitude isn’t dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn’t have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive—and it still informs other kinds of music.”
—David Byrne (b. 1952)