musician
(mjuːzɪʃən )
Word forms: musicians
countable noun B1
A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument as their job or hobby.
He was a brilliant musician.
...one of Britain's best known rock musicians.
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Quotations:
I am not a musician. I don't go in too deep. If you have the music in your head, and you sing it with your body, then you'll be alright
I'm a concert pianist - that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployedAn American in Paris
Collocations:
orchestra musician orchestral musician outstanding musician popular musician professional musician prominent musician renowned musician rock musician seasoned musician skilled musician solo musician string musician struggling musician studio musician talented musician touring musician trained musician well-known musician world-class musician
But a regional orchestra musician gets paid 35,000, the same as a bus driver.
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After the 1920s he rarely performed in jazz settings, spending more time as a studio and orchestra musician.
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Besides his work as an orchestra musician, he has established himself in the concert business as a soloist for the mallet instruments marimba, vibraphone and xylophone since the 1980s.
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The orchestra musicians took an additional pay cut for the 2003-2004 season.
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As talking pictures emerged, with their prerecorded musical tracks, an increasing number of moviehouse orchestra musicians found themselves out of work.
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This sentiment echoes those of any orchestral musician you speak to, and the problem persists.
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Well, practically every orchestral musician who ever lived.
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It presents a different image of the life of an orchestral musician, a conductor and a soloist to the one we're used to.
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He was an active soloist, recording artist, and orchestral musician.
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By the time he finished school, he was working as an orchestral musician, and occasionally made short concert tours as a violinist.
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It was immense fun, and a privilege to be involved in the early days of this outstanding musician.
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Heaven has gained an outstanding musician.
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He had a reputation as an outstanding musician and composer, who was also gifted mechanically.
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We do all this, with outstanding musicians, for about what you budget for a full-time music minister.
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The faculty consists of outstanding musicians selected from leading orchestras and music schools with world-class performing artists serving as both faculty instructors and performers.
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If you were an aspiring popular musician, he would be someone to emulate, were it not for the fact that the aspiration would be hopeless.
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He was the first popular musician to understand that rhythm could have as profound an effect on its audience as melody.
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In the pipe he saw those of a popular musician.
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Then she married a photographer, and went a bit wild and started hanging out with actors and popular musicians.
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He was among the first photographers to specialise in taking pictures of popular musicians and, more specifically, to think them worthy of being photographed.
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I'm a professional musician who has been employed freelance by the station.
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He had, however, already decided that he did not have sufficient talent to be a professional musician.
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Had things gone differently for him in his early years, however, he might instead have had a no less notable life as a professional musician.
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He left school hoping to become a professional musician.
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Undaunted, he shelved his ambition to be a professional musician.
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Both of these weeks draw from around the country, and feature prominent musician/instructors.
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The station also hosted a number of live events featuring prominent musicians.
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In their individual careers they have performed and recorded with many prominent musicians in the field of jazz and blues.
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Regarded as jazz standards, they have frequently been recorded by other prominent musicians.
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Performances were not allowed, jazz was prohibited from radio broadcasts, and prominent musicians were threatened.
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She performs as a renowned musician and also gives music lessons.
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Internationally renowned musicians were invited to be visiting professors, standards of entry were fiendishly difficult and student performances were to be delivered in quality surroundings to appreciative audiences.
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She works with a lot of renowned musicians, actors and artists.
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It began in 2004 as a series of concerts and has grown to be a meeting place for internationally renowned musicians and up-and-coming performers.
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The influence of classical music, and his contact with renowned musicians left its mark in the work he did during this period.
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But he was never easy listening, and he was never really a rock musician, she explains.
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You're a second-generation rock musician with a career of your own.
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It's like being a rock musician or something.
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The building pulls up beside a cheering crowd, whereupon the young rock musician in the flat opens the window and starts playing to his new audience.
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Being a rock musician demanded a specific look, so we created a 'choppy and wild' style.
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His band, all similarly masterful and seasoned musicians, were supportive without being showy.
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Though still young, his works were already at par with the seasoned musicians.
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Right from teaching seasoned musicians, he taught even naive beginners - sometimes free of cost.
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The addition of these two seasoned musicians solidified the band into a genuine and powerful live band for the first time.
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The event could be considered a showcase for up-and-coming artists, but there were usually at least a handful of big names and seasoned musicians that performed as well.
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It was an easy time to be a skilled musician.
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He was a dedicated and skilled musician and enjoyed making music with his friends.
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A highly skilled musician will provide the ideal lip pressure and air pressure for each frequency (note) being produced.
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She was supposedly a very skilled musician as well, in both singing and playing the lute.
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He also enjoyed a reputation as a skilled musician.
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He has since built up a career, travelling the globe as a solo musician and composer with two piano albums to his name.
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In 2007, he recorded his first two songs as a solo musician.
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Other than appearing in numerous musical theatre productions his credits as a musician include composing scores for theatre and performing live as a solo musician.
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She has played in several bands, but primarily as a solo musician for over twelve years.
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His career, both as a solo musician and as a member of several bands, was as eclectic as his musical tastes.
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In addition to constructing new instruments he also carried out repairs for string musicians.
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They are often seen in violin, viola, and cello players, along with fiddler's neck and other dermatologic conditions peculiar to string musicians.
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The lessons were capped off by performances in the schools by string musicians.
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Things seemed to turn around for the struggling musician when he bought a car and computer in 2000, shortly before we first met.
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I was a struggling musician, living from pay cheque to pay cheque.
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Not quite a struggling musician then.
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The two struck up a conversation with the struggling musician, and upon learning his background, they gave him some work making demos of their songs.
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By then, it has been revealed that he was living as a struggling musician.
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He also continued to perform as a studio musician.
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Way began his career as a studio musician for many artists.
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As a studio musician, he has played on hundreds of recordings of all descriptions.
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Eventually he spent thirty-four years as a studio musician, playing piano, arranging and conducting for major productions.
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As a studio musician, he has recorded on over 120 albums and film soundtracks.
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He was also a talented musician and for a while considered becoming a concert pianist.
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As everyone but the most naturally talented musician knows, it's all about practice.
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I did not believe my son, a talented musician, and we had countless arguments.
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I was a young pastor; he was a talented musician.
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For this talented musician and songwriter, hip-hop seems little more than a state of mind.
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I was a touring musician, averaging 250 shows a year.
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He was a touring musician for a number of other groups.
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They embark on a whirlwind romance before she tells him to leave to pursue his dream of being a touring musician.
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She claims that she used the experience to cut her teeth on the rigours of songwriting, traveling, marketing and other aspects of being a touring musician.
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In the interview, he stated that his main motivation for leaving was because he had realised that the lifestyle of a touring musician was damaging his family life.
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Salmon, a trained musician, has a particular ear for it.
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I started as a classically trained musician, then went into jazz.
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She was not a trained musician.
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She's a classically trained musician who can also do pop.
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Not a trained musician, but can sing very well.
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The rockers don't have to look far for well-known musicians to back their cause.
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Raven co-wrote all of the songs, with several well-known musicians.
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The concerts consist of a combination of pop music and popular classical music (often combined) and various well-known musicians and groups usually participate.
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He continued songwriting and performing session work for numerous well-known musicians.
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It was also hard to persuade well-known musicians to accompany him.
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If you've ever wanted to walk alongside a world-class musician as she writes, arranges, records, mixes, masters and tours, here's your start point.
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Occasionally it produces a world-class musician.
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From this humble beginning and years honing her craft, she emerged as a world-class musician.
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That's tough on world-class musicians.
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Translations:
Chinese: 音乐家
Japanese: 音楽家
- take the cake
- take the chair
- take the consequences
- take the consequences/face the consequences
- take the edge off
- take the edge off something
- take the ferry
- take the flak
- take the floor
- take the gilt off the gingerbread
- take the guesswork out of
- take the helm
- take the high road
- take the initiative
- take the knee
- take the law into your own hands
- take the law into your own hands
- take the liberty of doing something
- take the mickey
- take the place of
- take the place of/take sb's place
- take the plunge
- take the rap
- take the rap
- take the reins