 Kọ itẹsiwaju fun paragirafi yii - Sussex tun ti jẹ ile si ọpọlọpọ awọn onkọwe ti orin kilasika pẹlu Thomas Weelkes, John Ireland, Edward Elgar, Frank Bridge, Arnold Bax, Sir Hubert Parry ati Ralph Vaughan Williams, ti o ṣe ipa pataki ninu gbigbasilẹ orin ibile ti Sussex. Lẹnu àìpẹ yìí, John Tavener, Michael Finnissy, Jonathan Harvey àti Martin Butler ti ṣe ilé wọn ní ìpínlẹ yìí. Claude Debussy kọ ọpọ lára La mer nígbà tó wà ní Eastbourne. William Ward-Higgs ló kọ orin náà, Sussex by the Sea sì jẹ orin ìjọba àpapọ ti ìpínlẹ náà. Ninu orin ti o gbajumọ, Sussex ti ṣe agbejade awọn oṣere pẹlu Leo Sayer, The Cure, The Levellers, Brett Anderson, Keane, The Kooks, STOMP, The Feeling, Rizzle Kicks, Conor Maynard, Tom Odell, Olugbe, Ẹjẹ Royal, RagnBone Man, Celeste ati Awọn ayaworan. Àwọn olórin míràn ni Ed Harcourt, The Go! Ẹgbẹ, British Sea Power àti Antony Hegarty. Ni awọn ọdun 1970, Sussex jẹ ile si Ilu Phun, ayẹyẹ orin ọfẹ ọfẹ nla akọkọ ti UK ati gbalejo idije orin Eurovision Song Contest 1974 : èyí ló mú kí ẹgbẹ ABBA di olókìkí kárí ayé. 