Definition of Musician

Musician

One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.

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Art, In, Instrument, Music, Musical, Of, On, One, Or, Performer, Science, Singer, Skilled, The

Musician Quotations

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Bob Dylan

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
Adele

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
Freddie Mercury

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.
Charles M. Schulz

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.
Joshua Chamberlain

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.
Virgil Thomson

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
Virgil Thomson

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
Pablo Casals

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
Jerry Garcia

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.
Bruno Mars

I like Flea, I like him as a musician.
Ziggy Marley

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
James Taylor

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.
Stevie Nicks

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
Gustav Mahler

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
Etta James

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
Richard Wagner

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.
Geddy Lee

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
Geddy Lee

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.
Geddy Lee

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.
Nusrat F. A. Khan

'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one.
Rick Allen

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
Yo-Yo Ma

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.
Yo-Yo Ma

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
Bill Wyman

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.
Bill Wyman

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.
Matt Cameron

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
Franz Liszt

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Musician Translations

musician in Danish is musiker
musician in Dutch is musicus, muzikant, speelman
musician in French is musicien
musician in German is Musiker
musician in Italian is musicista
musician in Swedish is musiker

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