Accordion Quotes

My father played fiddle and the accordion.

— Eddie Rabbitt

“Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.”

— Gary Larson

Who's Heinz and what's an accordion?" -Spader

— Anonymous

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

— Tom Waits

“The harmonica is an accordion with soul.”

— Kim Field

Who's Heinz and what's an accordion?

— D. J. MacHale

Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

— Markus Zusak

“Of my own accord I want to learn the accordion, according to a cord (not a chord).”

— Jarod Kintz

Accordion to a recent survey, replacing words with the names of musical instruments in a sentence often goes undetected.

— Ramandeep Singh

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.

— Jose Feliciano

I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds…

— Lawrence Welk

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

— Ambrose Bierce

Im a studio musician. You get me in the studio I can play an accordion. 4 bars and loop it back. Percussion…

— Akon

[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income.…

— Pauline Oliveros

I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind…

— Dan Hicks

“It was as if his eye were an ear and a crackle went through it each time he shot a look at…

— Annie Proulx

Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a…

— Joe McNally

“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

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

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

Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a…

— Richard Galliano

My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a…

— Toots Thielemans

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

I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was…

— Al Yankovic

“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

The Edith Head Trio, I would say, would be even less of a musical career than playing the accordion, particularly because I…

— Daniel Handler

“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

I think back to playing the accordion, there was no reason to believe I would be a baseball player.

— John Smoltz

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

— Hunter Hayes

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

— Toots Thielemans

“Papa was an accordion. But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.”

— Markus Zusak

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

— Robert Burchfield

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

— Lucas Grabeel

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'

— Alfred Schnittke

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

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

The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated…

— Pauline Oliveros

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

— Colm Meaney

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

— Elizabeth Moon