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Accordion Quotes & Sayings

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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

Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion. — Gary Larson

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

that I realized that the blind old man who played the accordion on Main Street wasn't there anymore. He was gone. — R.J. Palacio

What he did succeed in seeing behind him in his mind's eye was tiny, compressed like a closed accordion. — Milan Kundera

The world is a staircase," hissed the accordion maker in the darkness. "Some go up and some come down. We must ascend. — Annie Proulx

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

[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old. — Helen Hooven Santmyer

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. — Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion." — Martin Mull

My youngest boy went mad. He sits drooling on the porch, trying to play the cat like an accordion. He's been scratched some. — H.P. Lovecraft

Who's Heinz and what's an accordion?"
-Spader — D.J. MacHale

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

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. — Norman Schwarzkopf

A fist plowed into my face. My head belted back. I heard a wheeze and a crunch like the sound of a broken accordion. — M. Pierce

Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion ... — Bel Kaufman

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

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

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

The accordion and the whores and the retching,' he said. 'That's our music. — Paula McLain

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

Walk into the living room (which doubled as the Hubermanns' bedroom), pull the accordion — Markus Zusak

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

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

Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer — Sarah Kay

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less. — Colm Meaney

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. — Hunter Hayes

Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes. — Markus Zusak

The mention of money did intrigue him, since he did prefer wine, women, and song to beer, whores, and accordion music. — Pip Ballantine

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield

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