#accordion

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

#came #couple #couple times #gave #i

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

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#france #going #hunting #like #war

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

— Toots Thielemans

#bought #cardboard #father #got #i

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

— Lucas Grabeel

#african #drums #guitar #harmonica #i

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

#acoustic #acoustic guitar #bands #bass #different

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

#because #definitely #encouraged #had #hated

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

— Elizabeth Moon

#bass #beautifully #cello #perfect #string

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

— Alfred Schnittke

#composer #concerto #do you know #experience #first

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

#death #fathers #death

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

#acid #am #bob #demon #denver