Accordions Quote by Connie Francis

I started with the piano-accordion and rebelled against it, but I could not afford piano lessons.

— Richard McCabe

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 accordion and…

— Daniel Handler

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

— Pauline Oliveros

My mother wanted me to take piano lessons, but I never wanted to, because that is something you have to learn, like you have…

— Ryo Kawasaki

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

— Jackson Browne

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

— John Williams

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But…

— Conrad Aiken

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

— Mick Taylor

I had to go to an audition for a rather large West End musical set on a Greek island. I didn't realise that you…

— Mel Giedroyc

I grew up playing the piano, but you know, as a rebellious child, I convinced myself that I hated it.

— Aimee Osbourne

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

— Pauline Oliveros

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical…

— Frankie Cosmos