Music
The cultural influence of Dungeons & Dragons upon successful musical artists can be inferred by the references to the game in their recorded lyrics.
- The Weezer song "In The Garage" starts with the lines, "I've got the Dungeon Master's Guide. I've got a 12-sided die." This is on the Weezer (1994 album), also known as the Blue Album.
- The lyrics of "Weird Al" Yankovic's satirical song "White & Nerdy" includes the line, "Got skills, I'm a Champion of D&D".
- Flashlight Brown's song "Ready to Roll" is a veiled reference to a group playing D&D.
- Seminal stoner rock band Kyuss was formed in 1989 under the name "Sons of Kyuss", in reference to the deity Kyuss.
- The lyrics of Team Unicorn's satirical song "Geek and Gamer Girls Song" includes a brief reference to D&D, sandwiched between a mention of Frank Herbert's Dune series and a mention of the character Rand al'Thor, the main protagonist of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
- Owen Pallett's album He Poos Clouds is roughly based on the concept of the eight schools of magic from Dungeons & Dragons.
- Stephen Lynch has a comedic song titled "D&D" on his album Superhero.
- Marcy Playground Wrote a song called "Cloak of Elvenkind" about a magic item of the same name.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)
“Yes; as the music changes,
Like a prismatic glass,
It takes the light and ranges
Through all the moods that pass;”
—Alfred Noyes (1880–1958)
“We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets—we remember only.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)