“The accordion and the whores and the retching,' he said. 'That's our music.” — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old. — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
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
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
“Papa was an accordion. But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.” — Markus Zusak 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
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
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
“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
My first dream was to travel. I was attracted to different places, different colors of skin, different food. When I was 18… — Guy Laliberte 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
“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
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
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
My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine. — Toots Thielemans 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
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
The book itself [The Thorn and The Blossom] is bound accordion-style: it has no spine, so it can open in either direction,… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
“Of my own accord I want to learn the accordion, according to a cord (not a chord).” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a… — Richard Galliano Copy Share Image
“It was as if his eye were an ear and a crackle went through it each time he shot a look at… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind… — Dan Hicks Copy Share Image
“The French always make our sort happy because, like us, they know how to love, they're just as good at playing the… — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old. — Helen Hooven Santmyer Copy Share Image
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![“The book itself [The Thorn and The Blossom] is bound accordion-style: it has no spine, so it can open in either direction, and it's in a slipcase.” quote by Theodora Goss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d8f/theodora-goss-10051_accordions_the-book-itself-the-thorn-and-the-blosso_508857.jpg)
![“[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.” quote by Helen Hooven Santmyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b19/helen-hooven-santmyer-46067_accordions_time-was-an-accordion-all-the-air-squeez_2494304.jpg)