Musicians
- Duncan Campbell British Reggae singer, formerly the only registered spoon player with the Musicians' Union in the United Kingdom.
- Bobby Hebb and Noel Crombie are well-known spoons players.
- In 1994, Seattle Grunge band Soundgarden had a hit with the song "Spoonman" that features a spoons performance by street artist Artis the Spoonman.
- British actor Sylvester McCoy, who most notably played Radagast the Brown in The Hobbit films, as well as the seventh incarnation of Doctor Who, is adept at playing the spoons, as evidenced during his tenure on Doctor Who as well as in his role in Ian McKellan's King Lear.
- Sam Spoons, drummer of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
- The Original Mr. Spoons, George P. Gully (NYC) 1929-2010...featured at Madison Sq Garden, NYC, Fox & Friends, Americas Got Talent, Americas Most Talented Senior and numerous NYC night clubs. See www.mrspoons.com
- Russian president Boris Yeltsin was known to enjoy performing with wooden spoons among his officials.
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“Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“How are we to know that a Dracula is a key-pounding pianist who lifts his hands up to his face, or that a bass fiddle is the doghouse, or that shmaltz musicians are four-button suit guys and long underwear boys?”
—In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“As if the musicians did not so much play the little phrase as execute the rites required by it to appear, and they proceeded to the necessary incantations to obtain and prolong for a few instants the miracle of its evocation, Swann, who could no more see the phrase than if it belonged to an ultraviolet world ... Swann felt it as a presence, as a protective goddess and a confidante to his love, who to arrive to him ... had clothed the disguise of this sonorous appearance.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)