Music
- Andrew Matthews-Owen, Welsh pianist
- Artie Matthews (1888–1958), American ragtime composer
- Ben Matthews, English guitarist and keyboard player with the hard rock band Thunder
- Cerys Matthews (b. 1969), Welsh singer
- Chauncey Matthews, American singer
- Colin Matthews (b. 1946), English composer
- Dave Matthews (b. 1967), South African musician
- David Matthews (b. 1943), English composer
- Denis Matthews (1919–1988), English pianist
- Denise Katrina Matthews, known as Vanity (performer) (b. 1959), Canadian singer, actress, and religious leader
- Edward Matthews, pioneering African American opera singer
- Emma Matthews (b. 1970), Australian operatic soprano
- Iain Matthews, English musician and songwriter
- Jesse Matthews, (b. 1978) American hip-hop and television music producer/composer, who has had several songs on the Billboard top 100
- Jessie Matthews, popular English actress, dancer, and singer of the 1930s
- Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer
- Patrick Matthews, former bassist of Australian garage rock band The Vines
- Ron Matthews, the original drummer for legendary English heavy metal band Iron Maiden
- Scott Matthews, English singer/songwriter from Wolverhampton
- Wall Matthews, III, (b. 1950) American recording artist/songwriter/composer from Baltimore, MD who has recorded several, critically acclaimed solo albums and does music for a wide variety of television shows, movies, and video games
- Wendy Matthews, Canadian adult alternative pop singer who has had won seven ARIA awards and achieved a number of hit records
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“The music is in minors.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“If this be love, to clothe me with dark thoughts,
Haunting untrodden paths to wail apart;
My pleasures horror, music tragic notes,
Tears in mine eyes and sorrow at my heart.
If this be love, to live a living death,
Then do I love and draw this weary breath.”
—Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)
“If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator—the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)