Music
- Shawn Colvin (born 1956), Grammy Award winning musician; born in Vermillion
- Myron Floren (1919–2005), accordionist, The Lawrence Welk Show; born in Roslyn
- Jess Thomas (1927–1993), opera singer; born in Hot Springs
- Abby Whiteside
- Joey Clement, band member of Selena Gomez & The Scene; born in Rapid City
- Mark Craney (1952–2005), drummer for Jethro Tull, Jean Luc-Ponty, Eric Burdon and others
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation’s prayer ever in dumb music ascending.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
“There was never yet such a storm but it was Æolian music to a healthy and innocent ear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)