20 Metaphors for musicians

The musician in my story is Jarvis, with a thin disguise.

The "Musician" and the "Spanish Jew," though not imaginary characters, were never guests at the "Wayside Inn."

At that time the greatest gipsy musician was a woman: her name was "Czinka Panna," and she was called the Gipsy Queen.

The musicians were spectators who whistled in a band the air of the bourrée, which is enough to make the most sedate Canon who ever sat in a stall dance, or at least to remember with charity the promptings of his adolescence.

The first musician to whom a place among the representative masters of German literature may justly be assigned is Beethoven, and this fact is so significant and so closely connected with the subsequent development both of music and literature that the reasons for such a statement should be set forth in detail.

Where can the musician be! KING.

A musician is also a poet, and the magic of a pair of eyes can suddenly cause him to feel transported into a more beautiful world, where great spirits make sport of him and set him mighty tasks.

How is such an art as this to compel, or to deny anything or anybody? Musicians, then, are only ordinary clay, who happened to make music, instead of other things of more or less beauty or value.

Your first thought would be, that a good musician must be a good lover; that a broken heart alone can add the Master's degree to the usual conservatory diploma of Bachelor of Music; that all musicians must be sentimental, if musicians at all; and finally that only musicians can know how to announce and embellish that primeval theme to which all existence is but variations, more or less brilliant, more or less in tune.

A gifted musician, Lenau was also a master of the melody of words, and his nature-feeling was unusually deep and true.

But a first-rate musician was surely the equal of a brewer.

The rough German musician was a simple person, unstable, fickle, ready to be amused at any new plaything.

Thus the blind musician was a revelation of the very soul of the Turks.

The musician, Antonio Spatola, is the guilty man, beyond a doubt.

It was a very large board room, like a barn with a rail across the front end of it, and a gate; and in the front part a drinking bar, the musicians at the other end on a platform, and beyond the rail and gate a beautiful dance floor, while at the side were boxes where one could retire to watch the dancingall rough boards and gaudy cretonne curtains.

His idea of inactivity and drought was sublimated, for the musicians were never still a moment.

And to think that the musicians should be toadsyes, toadsthe most despised and the most unjustly treated of creatures!

It might have been more exciting to some readers, if I had started out with a hard and fast theory, and then discarded or warped everything contradictory to it, but it would have been a dishonest procedure for one who believes that musicians are neither saints of exaltation nor fiends of lawless ecstasy; but only ordinary clay ovens of fire and ashes like the rest of us.

The bands of the regiments are under the direction of Frenchmen and Spaniards: the musicians are all natives, and play with a correct ear.

The musician Haydn was almost the only genius that Austria at that time possessed outside of diplomatic or military ranks.

20 Metaphors for  musicians