Mathew Sweet

Third Eye Blind

Virgil Thomson

Tool

Guissepe Verdi
Reviewing a biography of Verdi, the Tablet
wrote: "A recurring theme in the book is
Verdi’s anti-clericalism. An agnostic whose
elevated sense of duty and morality bypassed
divine sanction… It is, of course, a great irony
that the most popular setting of the Requiem
 mass should be the work of an avowed
 unbeliever."

Roger Waters
http://www.roger-waters.com/

Dar Williams

Ralph Vaughn Williams, English composer (1872-1958).
The Internet Movie Database has a short biography, which includes, "His professional career spanned more than six decades,
with nine Symphonies, several concertos, a ballet, a few operas and countless choral works. The latter are often performed in
church services, not bad for an agnostic composer."

XTC - reference peter buck

Frank Zappa, American musician (1940-1993).
"Who you jivin' with that cosmic debris?"
"Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be."
"If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine -- but to hang all this desperate sociology
on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good -- and CARES about any of it
-- to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working." [The Real Frank Zappa Book, ("Church and State"
chapter) by Frank Zappa and Peter Occhiogrosso, p. 301]