Accordion Quotes

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. (Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.)
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't. View quote
Tom Waits
ACCORD, n. Harmony. ACCORDION, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
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. View quote
Lawrence Welk
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. View quote
Matthew Sweet
[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 he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion. View quote
Chuck Jones
Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes. View quote
Markus Zusak
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. View quote
Markus Zusak
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?' View quote
Alfred Schnittke
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully. View quote
Elizabeth Moon
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)
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor. View quote
Lawrence Welk
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. View quote
Richard Widmark
My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine. View quote
Toots Thielemans
To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing. View quote
Henry Miller
Wouldn't it be as farfetched to call birth the cause of death as to call the cat's head the cause of the tail? Lifting the neck of a bottle implies lifting the bottom as well, for the "two parts" come up at the same time. If I pick up an accordion by one end, the other will follow a little later, but the principle is the same. Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space. View quote
Alan Watts
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. View quote
Amy Grant
Voices were blended and intermingled in a tumultuous swirl around which eddied laughter, shouts, the squeaking of doors and windows, piano and accordion music, rollicking handclaps, a policeman's bark, braying, grunts, coughs of hashish addicts and screams of drunkards, anonymous calls for help, raps of a stick, and singing by individuals and groups. View quote
Naguib Mahfouz
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion. View quote
Lucas Grabeel
Who's Heinz and what's an accordion?" -Spader. View quote
D. J. MacHale
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)
My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. View quote
Hunter Hayes
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. View quote
Hunter Hayes
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. View quote
Joe McNally
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. View quote
Dan Hicks