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:
“Where should this music be? I’ th’ air, or th’ earth?
It sounds no more.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“And in the next instant, immediately behind them, Victor saw his former wife.
At once he lowered his gaze, automatically tapping his cigarette to dislodge the ash that had not yet had time to form. From somewhere low down his heart rose like a fist to deliver an uppercut, drew back, struck again, then went into a fast disorderly throb, contradicting the music and drowning it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Taylor, the Shakespeare of divines.
His words are music in my ear,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)