to one degree or another, a person's definition of a musician would have to depend on his definition of music. The word music has multiple uses:

1) sheet music
"Do you have the music for STAR SPANGLED BANNER?"

2) particularly pleasing sound
"To me the sound of a thunderstorm is music to my ears"

3) particularly pleasing music (preference)
"You call that crap music?? Jazz.. now THAT'S music!"

4) an industry
"my daughter's in engineering, and my son's in music"

5) a type of artistic composition
"Few creative endeavors have influenced civilization as much as classical music.."

etc etc

Last edited by Pat Marr; 04/17/15 09:51 AM.