Talk: Musician
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See Talk:Instrumentalist for rationale for merging Instrumentalist article into Musician article. --- RobLa 20:40 Nov 16, 2002 (UTC)
I took this out:
However, musicians, at least insofar as their human manifestations go, can be distinguished from other creatures that create melodic sounds by their insistence on producing such sounds even when there is no clear reason for them to do so and even in the face of compelling reasons to cease such activity in favour of dealing with crises affecting their personal survival. In other words, even when no reward or likely advantage is to be obtained by the performance of "Brown Eyed Girl" or "Mustang Sally" in a bar full of losers, a musician will, nevertheless, perform such composition or other "song" requested by any audience even as his (or her) girlfriend (or boyfriend) is being wooed by the bartender and/or all his/her belongings are being carted off to a disposal site and/or staff of such establishment are telling him/her to "stop now!". (See also, "guitarist" and "singer" and "homeless person".)
- on the grounds that it is not encyclopedic. It is rather witty and clever and made me smile a bit but I don't think that is a genuine reason for it being in here. Maybe its author would like to reword it into something more suitable? And to be fair some of the humor is a bit old - not such a bad thing but we have all done the homeless joke a bit too much in the past. Maybe a NPOV look at why some people see musicians that way? Otherwise I think it should stay out.
Anonymous grumbler.
- More humour for serious musicians - Zigger 17:32, 2004 Mar 28 (UTC)
Should all the links pointing to [[Bassoonist]], for instance, be changed to [[Bassoon]]ist? I can only think of one instance where the playing of the instrument is unusual (Contrabassoon), however it wouldn't amount to much more than a stub, and should be probably merged into Contrabassoon anyway... Dysprosia 08:00, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Famous
I think a famous one is Ray Charles. --Patricknoddy 20:14, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)User:Patricknoddy --Patricknoddy 20:14, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)User talk:Patricknoddy
