Music
- Richard "Pistol" Allen (1932–2002), African-American musician, drummer for the Funk Brothers
- Richard B. Allen (1927–2007), American jazz historian and author
- Rick Allen (drummer) (born 1963), British musician with the rock band Def Leppard
- Rick Allen (keyboardist) (born 1946), American musician
- Rick Allen (organist) (born c. 1940), Grammy nominated blues, rock and R&B organist and pianist
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“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
“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 used to be angry all the time and I’d sit there weaving my anger. Now I’m not angry. I sit there hearing the sounds outside, the sounds in the room, the sounds of the treadles and heddles—a music of my own making.”
—Bhakti Ziek (b. c. 1946)