02-05-2004, 06:40 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Black Lazerus
Quote:They are considered Musicians because the Voice can be a musical instrument. If you consider an Opera singer a musician, then any pop singer, no matter how poor the quality of music they produce is, is still a musician. They are not, however, artists, because they do not create anything.
So would you consider a person who could play the guitar, but couldn't read music a musician?
Don't fuck with Jimi.
Yes. A Musician makes music, whether it is with an external musical instrument or internal. If some kid out there makes fart noises with his armpit and can vary the noises in such a way that another kid declares it music in his mind, then the kid who is making fart noises IS a musician to the second kid.
An Artist creates art. I do not consider Warhol an artist because I don't consider his work art (at least the soup can).
It's subjective, but the reality is: does the sounds the musician make considered music? does the product produced equate to art?
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<center>Boy the way Glen Miller played,
songs that made the hit parade,
guys like us we had it made,
those were the days,
and you know where you were then,
girls were girls and men were men,
mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again,
didn't need no welfare states
everybody pulled his weight,
gee our old Lasalle ran great,
those were the days!</center>
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<center>Boy the way Glen Miller played,
songs that made the hit parade,
guys like us we had it made,
those were the days,
and you know where you were then,
girls were girls and men were men,
mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again,
didn't need no welfare states
everybody pulled his weight,
gee our old Lasalle ran great,
those were the days!</center>