Accordions Quotes

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  A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

  Tom Waits

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

  Bel Kaufman

  Time, Erratic, Collapse

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.109, Open Road Media

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• Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Musical, Assassins, Harmony

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.

  Julia Glass

  Years, Play, Long

  Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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• If you want to turn on your boyfriend, get naked and strap on an accordion.

  Sheryl Crow

  Your Boyfriend, Naked, Want

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• I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

  Lawrence Welk

  Real, People, Musician

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Guitar

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• 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

  Years, Found, Passage Of Time

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• It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

  Al Yankovic

  Teenager, Player, Rocks

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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

  Beautiful, Play, Giving

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• Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

  Lawrence Welk

  Talking, Down And, Conversation

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• 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

  Fall, Feelings, Noise

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• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  Lee Patrick Mastelotto

  Country, Eye, Blue

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• Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  War, Hunting, France

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Guitar, Play, Doe

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2005.

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• My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

  Toots Thielemans

  Father, Three, Machines

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• 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

  Sharks, Denver, Panthers

  "The Heat-Seeking Panther" by Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. July 22, 2010.

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• I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Guitar, Play, Piano

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• 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

  Two Sides, Car, Would Be

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• 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

  Song, Taken, Piano

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• Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?

  Alfred Schnittke

  Firsts, Composer, Knows

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• No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Perfect, Bass, Strings

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• 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

  Couple, Piano, Play

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• Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

  Robertson Davies

  Money, War, People

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• I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Teenager, Cutting

  Source: www.esquire.com

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