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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. -- Ambrose Bierce
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion? -- Alfred Schnittke
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?' -- Alfred Schnittke
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion. -- Lucas Grabeel
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully. -- Elizabeth Moon
I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less. -- Colm Meaney
My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine. -- Toots Thielemans
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor. -- Lawrence Welk
My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. -- Hunter Hayes
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
I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion. -- Nicolas Cage
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much. -- Amy Grant
Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it. -- Joe McNally
I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion. -- Lawrence Welk
Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better. -- John Lydon
Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief. -- Richard Widmark
I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't. -- Connie Francis
My first dream was to travel. I was attracted to different places, different colors of skin, different food. When I was 18 in 1977, I went to Europe with my accordion and discovered the pleasure of entertaining people. -- Guy Laliberte
Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done. -- Hunter Hayes
I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing. -- Dan Hicks
I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the same pictures... should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same. -- Les Claypool
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 cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing. -- Brendon Urie
He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not. -- Matthew Sweet
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion. -- Hunter Hayes
Who's Heinz and what's an accordion?" -Spader -- D. J. MacHale
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion ... -- Bel Kaufman
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't. -- Tom Waits
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion -- Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf
Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer -- Sarah Kay
[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old. -- Helen Hooven Santmyer
If you want to turn on your boyfriend, get naked and strap on an accordion. -- Sheryl Crow
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. -- Robert Burchfield
Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes. -- Markus Zusak
Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion." -- Martin Mull
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
You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind. -- Jed Babbin
Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out. -- Markus Zusak
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. -- Theodora Goss
Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect. -- Steve Rushin
A new study found that women think men holding a guitar are more attractive, even if they are not playing it. In a related story, guys with an accordion will die alone. -- Jimmy Fallon
I would play a long tone on my accordion, or I'd sing one, and I would note how it felt - what it did with my mental space. These were meditations that I did. -- Pauline Oliveros
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 no one else does, I end up doing strange things. -- Daniel Handler
Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very pointed sound that gives a lot of poetry and emotion. -- Richard Galliano
Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing. -- Markus Zusak

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