Accordions Quote by Pauline Oliveros

Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about…

— Hunter Hayes

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

— Toots Thielemans

My father played fiddle and the accordion.

— Eddie Rabbitt

My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music has a…

— Pauline Oliveros

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

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

— Jose Feliciano

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

— Richard McCabe

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

The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.

— Mary Steenburgen

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely…

— Connie Francis

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