Musicians
- Pete Wentz, bassist for Fall Out Boy (dropped out one quarter, or 10 weeks, shy of graduation to pursue music career)
- Jeremy Barnes, drummer of indie rock bands Neutral Milk Hotel, Bright Eyes, accordionist and bandleader of A Hawk and A Hacksaw, accordionist in Beirut
- Richard Harper, drummer of the Chicago-based rock groups Plastics Hi-Fi, The Sam Saunders Machine, and Team Band
- Several members of the rock band Chicago
- Frank Catalano, jazz musician
- Ryan Cohan, jazz musician
- Brian Culbertson, jazz musician
- Greg Davis, musician, sound-artist
- James William Guercio, producer for Chicago (band) and former owner of Country Music Television
- Ramsey Lewis, jazz musician
- Abraham Lubin, Hazzan
- Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for 1960's rock band The Doors
- Kris Myers, drummer of the Chicago-based progressive rock group Umphrey's McGee
- Tim Nordwind, bass and vocals for the band Ok Go
- Jim O'Rourke, Grammy Award-winning producer, composer, musician, sound-artist
- Walter Parazaider, woodwind player, Chicago (band)
- James Pankow, trombone player, Chicago (band)
- Lee Loughnane, trumpet player, Chicago (band)
- George Perle, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
- James Quinn, Emmy Award-winning composer
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Famous quotes containing the word musicians:
“How are we to know that a Dracula is a key-pounding pianist who lifts his hands up to his face, or that a bass fiddle is the doghouse, or that shmaltz musicians are four-button suit guys and long underwear boys?”
—In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“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)