No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less. — Colm Meaney Copy Share Image
“The accordion and the whores and the retching,' he said. 'That's our music.” — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself. — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
“walk into the living room (which doubled as the Hubermanns’ bedroom), pull the accordion” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Since I play piano, I can play the right hand on the accordion, no problemo. It's the left hand with the buttons… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion. — Lucas Grabeel Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play… — Matthew Sweet Copy Share Image
It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
“Just then there came the wheezy sound of an accordion. It was an odd little tune that, had he been alive exactly… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front… — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I recall the little things in life that make the journey more joyful, like the cheerful guy playing the accordion in… — Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache Copy Share Image
I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
The Edith Head Trio, I would say, would be even less of a musical career than playing the accordion, particularly because I… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“She didn't see him watching as he played, having no idea that Hans Hubermann's accordion was a story. In the times ahead,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a… — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
“Papa was an accordion. But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine. — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
I think back to playing the accordion, there was no reason to believe I would be a baseball player. — John Smoltz Copy Share Image
The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I still see myself as the kid who plays accordion and tries to keep people happy for 45 minutes. And there's nothing… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?' — Alfred Schnittke Copy Share Image
Im a studio musician. You get me in the studio I can play an accordion. 4 bars and loop it back. Percussion… — Akon Copy Share Image
[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old. — Helen Hooven Santmyer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
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