Music
- Andrew Matthews-Owen, Welsh pianist
- Artie Matthews (1888–1958), American ragtime composer
- Ben Matthews, English guitarist and keyboard player with the hard rock band Thunder
- Cerys Matthews (b. 1969), Welsh singer
- Chauncey Matthews, American singer
- Colin Matthews (b. 1946), English composer
- Dave Matthews (b. 1967), South African musician
- David Matthews (b. 1943), English composer
- Denis Matthews (1919–1988), English pianist
- Denise Katrina Matthews, known as Vanity (performer) (b. 1959), Canadian singer, actress, and religious leader
- Edward Matthews, pioneering African American opera singer
- Emma Matthews (b. 1970), Australian operatic soprano
- Iain Matthews, English musician and songwriter
- Jesse Matthews, (b. 1978) American hip-hop and television music producer/composer, who has had several songs on the Billboard top 100
- Jessie Matthews, popular English actress, dancer, and singer of the 1930s
- Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer
- Patrick Matthews, former bassist of Australian garage rock band The Vines
- Ron Matthews, the original drummer for legendary English heavy metal band Iron Maiden
- Scott Matthews, English singer/songwriter from Wolverhampton
- Wall Matthews, III, (b. 1950) American recording artist/songwriter/composer from Baltimore, MD who has recorded several, critically acclaimed solo albums and does music for a wide variety of television shows, movies, and video games
- Wendy Matthews, Canadian adult alternative pop singer who has had won seven ARIA awards and achieved a number of hit records
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)
“From where Pan’s cavern is
Intolerable music falls.
Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear,
Belly, shoulder, bum,
Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs
Copulate in the foam.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)