Example sentences for: musician

How can you use “musician” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • America may be waxing nostalgic over Dylan, but there has never been a musician less concerned with nostalgia.

  • Good reviews, for the most part, for the autobiography of one of hip-hop's most successful artists: "An amusing, contemplative memoir" that paints "a surprisingly humanistic portrait" of the crack dealer turned platinum-selling musician ( Kirkus Reviews ). The tales of his misspent youth and rise to fame are "eloquently told" (Michael Harris, the Los Angeles Times ). One reviewer splits from the pack and delivers a withering pan: "[T]he ability to sell a lot of records has almost nothing to do with insight or maturity.

  • The musician who first set this pace was the ex-Nazi Herbert von Karajan, who in the late 1950s was simultaneously principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna State Opera, and the Salzburg festival.

  • In a recital at Carnegie Hall more than a year ago, he reached for that sound and, at one excruciating moment, lost control of his bowing and sent out a wild overtone, double the volume of his normal playing, like the feedback on an electric guitar, Hendrix-like, after all--the worst howler I've ever heard from a musician of first rank.

  • He checks out the space the way a jazz musician checks out a nightclub in which he's about to perform.


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