Instrumentalists are often good singers.

[Blue-Jay]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBLm747tyn0

EDIT: I love the mariachi-feel at around 4:30.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. You talkin to me, bro??

I play instruments and sing too.

[Blue-Jay]

2. Me too.

In college, we (instrumentalists) used to piss off the vocal majors by referring to ourselves as "musicians" and referring to the vocal majors as "singers". None of us really believed that, but it sure pissed off the singers.

Anecdote: I served as a guinea pig for my vocalist-friend during one of her classes. Her assignment was to teach a non-vocalist how to sing. So she coached me in vocal techniques and foreign language pronunciation, and I sang "La donna è mobile" and "Deep River", and was asked by her professor why I wasn't a vocal major. I replied that I preferred to be a musician. He got the joke and laughed, but some of the vocalists in the audience actually got pissed off at me.

She got even with me later that year. I needed a vocal ensemble credit, so she told me that I wasn't good enough to make it in the college's elite vocal group. (Smart one, she was/still is - playing on my vanity like that). It ended up being fun, but I hated the maroon blazers that we were forced to wear.

[mitchum]

3. True, but not always

Unfortunately, too many guitarplayers are seemingly unaware of that fact. That's why I coined the phrase,"Yes, he sings...like a guitarplayer"

[Captain Hilts]

4. Good one!

[unpossibles]

5. I sing like a bass player

but I don't let that stop me. :D

What do you call a person who hangs out with musicians? The singer. (or a drummer...)

How many musicians does it take to change a lightbulb? Twenty. One changes it, and the rest tell all of their friends they could have done it better.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. You should read Leo Kottke's liner notes.

On his first album (the one with the black and white cover with an armadillo on it), he wrote his own liner notes. One of those sentences states that his voice "sounds like geese farts on a muggy day".

:D