Music
- Arthur Brown (musician), English rock and roll singer
- Ayla Brown (born 1988), American singer, college basketball player and former American Idol contestant
- Barry Brown (singer), Jamaican reggae singer
- Bill Brown (composer) (born 1969), American composer
- Bobby Brown (born 1969), American rhythm and blues singer
- Charles Brown (musician), American blues singer
- Chris Brown (American entertainer), American rhythm and blues singer and dancer
- Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter
- David Brown (Australian musician), Australian musician
- David Brown (musician), American musician
- Dennis Brown, Jamaican reggae singer
- Earle Brown, American experimental composer
- Eban Brown (born 1972), American jazz vocalist/guitarist, lead singer of The Stylistics
- Foxy Brown (rapper), American female rapper
- George Brown (musician) (born 1949), drummer for Kool & the Gang
- Harold Ray Brown (born 1946), member of the 1970s band War
- Ian Brown, solo artist and former lead singer in The Stone Roses
- Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor, sister of Timothy
- James Brown (1933–2006), American soul and funk singer and bandleader
- Jason "J" Brown, former member of boy-band 5ive
- Jocelyn Brown, American R&B and dance music singer
- Joe Brown (singer) (born 1941), British singer
- Julie Brown, American actress and singer
- Junior Brown, American country singer
- Les Brown (bandleader), big band leader
- Lew Brown, American lyricist
- Melanie Brown, English pop singer
- Peter Brown (singer) (born 1953), singer, songwriter, and producer
- Robert E. Brown (1927–2005), American ethnomusicologist
- Rosemary Brown (spiritualist) (1916–2001), spirit medium and classical pianist
- Ruth Brown, American singer
- Sam Brown (disambiguation)
- Stephen Brown (composer), Canadian composer, conductor, and teacher
- Steve Brown (bass player) (1890–1965), American jazz musician and string bass player from New Orleans
- Steve Brown (composer), British television composer
- Timothy Brown (hornist), British hornist, brother of Iona
- Tom Brown (trombonist) (1888–1958), American jazz trombonist and bandleader
- The 5 Browns, classical piano musical group: Ryan, Melody, Gregory, Deondra, and Desirae
- Vicki Brown (1940–1991), English singer
- Wilfred Brown, English tenor
- Willie Brown (musician) (1900–1952), American delta blues guitarist and singer
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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)
“I cannot say what poetry is; I know that our sufferings and our concentrated joy, our states of plunging far and dark and turning to come back to the world—so that the moment of intense turning seems still and universal—all are here, in a music like the music of our time, like the hero and like the anonymous forgotten; and there is an exchange here in which our lives are met, and created.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)
“La la la, Oh music swims back to me
and I can feel the tune they played
the night they left me
in this private institution on a hill.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)