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08-19-2009, 08:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Jackson,Tennessee | | | What is a Musician?
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at what point are you a musician?
we don't need this to be a flame fest.....because i doubt anyone will be right.
it is probably up to ones interpretation.
i had a guy tell me one time that when you play a song all the way through you are a musician.....i don't think i agree with that.....but i could be wrong.
i am asking this question because i really don't know.
i have a theory...but i want your opinion. |
08-19-2009, 08:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Wisconsin | | | mu⋅si⋅cian
/myuˈzɪʃən/ [myoo-zish-uhn]
–noun
1. a person who makes music a profession, esp. as a performer of music.
2. any person, whether professional or not, skilled in music. |
08-19-2009, 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by alapantera  any person, whether professional or not, skilled in music. | skilled how? |
08-19-2009, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Albatross skilled how? | Proficient in music. |
08-20-2009, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by alapantera mu⋅si⋅cian
/myuˈzɪʃən/ [myoo-zish-uhn]
–noun
1. a person who makes music a profession, esp. as a performer of music.
2. any person, whether professional or not, skilled in music. | /end thread |
08-20-2009, 02:09 PM
| | | If you have no benefits, no retirement fund, and your rate of pay has not even kept up with inflation over the last 35 years or so, and you have gone from working 6 nights a week to 2 nights a week, and actually feel good about the two nights a week of work, THEN you are a musician   |
08-20-2009, 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by KJung If you have no benefits, no retirement fund, and your rate of pay has not even kept up with inflation over the last 35 years or so, and you have gone from working 6 nights a week to 2 nights a week, and actually feel good about the two nights a week of work, THEN you are a musician | haha...cool
i understand the skilled part...but who decides the skill level? you? |
08-20-2009, 06:05 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | A musician is a bassist. What else do we need to discuss? |
08-20-2009, 06:56 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Drummers are not musicians. Unless they're wind up monkees with keys protruding from their backs.
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08-20-2009, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Albatross haha...cool
i understand the skilled part...but who decides the skill level? you? | Seriously?
I guess if you can fall anywhere in-between, "I suck, but I'm a rock star" to "Virtuoso" you can pick up a "I'm a musician" card at any participating Walmart. |
08-20-2009, 07:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toronto, ON | | | What is a musician? Usually broke.
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08-20-2009, 11:06 PM
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08-21-2009, 02:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Boston, MA | | | That word has been thrown around so much you could pretty much say everyone is a musician. Just like how everyone is an artist.
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08-21-2009, 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Rudreax That word has been thrown around so much you could pretty much say everyone is a musician. Just like how everyone is an artist. | I think of a musician as anyone who makes music, a painter is anyone who paints, a sculptor is anyone who makes sculpture, etc. I try to reserve the term "artist" for some who, in any field, truly excels at attempting to achieve the goals they have set for themselves, so long as that goal has taken a fair amount of thought to come up with. |
08-21-2009, 11:25 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cincinnati | | | IMHO - Everyone is capable of being a musician, that is the thing that lets humans make music is in all of us. Musicians are the people who connect with that element of existance, use it to add richness to their lives and spend a good bit of time making music (somehow).
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08-21-2009, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Bryan R. Tyler I think of a musician as anyone who makes music, a painter is anyone who paints, a sculptor is anyone who makes sculpture, etc. I try to reserve the term "artist" for some who, in any field, truly excels at attempting to achieve the goals they have set for themselves, so long as that goal has taken a fair amount of thought to come up with. | i agree...well put  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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