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:
“Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music up there?... It’s the music a man’s spirit sings to his heart, when the earth’s far away and there isn’t any more fear. It’s the high, fine, beautiful sound of an earth-bound creature who grew wings and flew up high and looked straight into the face of the future. And caught, just for an instant, the unbelievable vision of a free man in a free world.”
—Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)
“As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)