Music
- According to an interview with Jim Morrison, The Doors' song Riders on the Storm is partly based on the Zodiac Killer.
- On the bottom of the cover art of Guns N' Roses' album "The Spaghetti Incident?", there is a code using the killer's symbols, which has been deciphered as "fuck'em all".
- San Francisco metal band Machine Head's 1997 album The More Things Change... features "Blood of the Zodiac", inspired by the Zodiac killer.
- Kamelot's album Poetry for the Poisoned features two songs, "Dear Editor" and "The Zodiac", about the Zodiac Killer.
- The heavy metal band Macabre's album Sinister Slaughter features a song entitled "Zodiac", about the killer.
- The 1998 demo Poverty Sucks by San Francisco Bay Area's Poverty included the song "Insane Instinct," the lyrics of which were drawn directly from a Zodiac Killer letter. The late Buddy Mills (Insanity) played drums on the recording. The session vocalist, Rob Huffman, is author of the short story "Campin' With The Zodiac." A rough edit of the story was quoted heavily in Robert Graysmith's Zodiac Unmasked, the sequel to Zodiac. Huffman's family had ties with prime Zodiac suspect Arthur Leigh Allen.
- The Japanese horror punk band Balzac have a side project band consisting of the same band members that is called Zodiac. Song lyrics make frequent references to the words and actions of the Zodiac Killer.
- The song "Unhuman" by industrial artist Architect samples dialogue from the film. The lines "I like killing because man is the most dangerous animal alive" spoken by Gyllenhaal's character are used.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Taylor, the Shakespeare of divines.
His words are music in my ear,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)