Music
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunleavy, MaryMary Dunleavy | 1990 | M.M. | Professional opera singer | |
| Joplin, JanisJanis Joplin | — | (never graduated) | American singer who posthumously was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award | |
| Lynch, RayRay Lynch | 1967 | B.M. | Billboard Award-winning American classical guitarist and lutenist | |
| Robinson, RoyRoy Robinson | - | B.A. | Songwriter and Musician. His songs have been recorded by Santana, Garth Brooks, Johnny Bush, Tommy Alverson, Don Edwards (cowboy singer), Red Steagall, and many more. Also played bass for fellow UT student Janis Joplin. | |
| Sandifer, PhillipPhillip Sandifer | 1982 | B.A. | Songwriter and Musician. His songs have been recorded by Glen Campbell, Jennifer Warnes, Gary Powell. He has performed on various Disney recordings and has written, performed & produced many top hits in the Contemporary Christian music genre. | |
| Shocked, MichelleMichelle Shocked | 1983 | B.S. | Protest-music writer and performer |
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“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“I fear I agree with your friend in not liking all sermons. Some of them, one has to confess, are rubbish: but then I release my attention from the preacher, and go ahead in any line of thought he may have started: and his after-eloquence acts as a kind of accompaniment—like music while one is reading poetry, which often, to me, adds to the effect.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.... Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
—Harper Lee (b. 1926)