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
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as… — Robertson Davies 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
[W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when… — Chuck Jones 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
If you want to turn on your boyfriend, get naked and strap on an accordion. — Sheryl Crow 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
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
Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing… — Hunter Hayes 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
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never had a musical career. So I think it's been unaffected. I play the accordion. In terms of thinking of it… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started… — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
I would play a long tone on my accordion, or I'd sing one, and I would note how it felt - what… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old. — Helen Hooven Santmyer 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 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
I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because… — Connie Francis Copy Share Image