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

    Country   Eye   Blue  
  • 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.

    Song   Teenager   Cutting  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • 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.

    Fall   Feelings   Noise  
  • Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion."

    Music   Needs   Helping  
  • Papa sat with me tonight. He brought the accordion down and sat close to where Max used to sit. I often look at his fingers and face when he plays. the accordion breathes. There are lines on his cheeks. They look drawn on, and for some reason, when I see them, I want to cry. It is not for any sadness or pride. I just like the way they move and change. Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

    Moving   Sadness   Pride  
  • I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance, I have gathered a collection of objects that are important to me, including a dusty accordion on which I can play a few sad songs, a large bundle of notes on the activities of the Baudelaire orphans, and a blurry photograph, taken a very long time ago, of a woman whose name is Beatrice. These are items that are very precious and dear to me.

    Song   Taken   Play  
  • The format of the book was the idea of my wonderful editor, Stephen Segal. Stephen and I had worked together before, on projects for the Interstitial Arts Foundation, and when he got the idea for an accordion-style book, he called and asked if I could write the story for it. I told him that I would love to try! And I knew it had to be a love story, because that's the sort of story you really want to hear from both perspectives. I mean, imagine if Pride and Prejudice were told from Darcy's perspective as well as Elizabeth's. It would be quite a different story!

    Art   Book   Mean  
    Source: www.sfsignal.com
  • The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

  • 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.

    Guitar   Play   Doe  
    Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2005.
  • A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

    Funny   Music   Humorous  
  • 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.

    Book   Style   Spine  
    Source: www.sfsignal.com
  • I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

    Kids   Parent   Lessons  
  • 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.

  • Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

    Time   Erratic   Collapse  
    Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.109, Open Road Media
  • We're all like the little sailor. From the harbors we hear the strains of accordions and the murky soapy noises of the docks, from the mountains we receive the dish of silence that the shepherds eat, but we don't hear more than our own distances. And what distances without end and without doors and without mountains!

  • I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.

    Children   Beer   Sunday  
    Carl Sandburg, (2013). “Chicago Poems”, p.27, Read Books Ltd
  • Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

    Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
  • I've never had a musical career. So I think it's been unaffected. I play the accordion. In terms of thinking of it as a musical career, I think it's sort of like calling yourself an astronaut because you have a shiny suit.

    Thinking   Play   Careers  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

  • 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.

    Husband   Moving   Keys  
  • Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for 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.

    Couple   Piano   Play  
  • "Who's Heinz and what's an accordion?"

    "Pendragon: The Never War". Book by D. J. MacHale, May 1, 2003.
  • My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a shoebox. One of the regulars in 'the cafe said to my father: "I think you should get your son an accordion-that's what he's trying to do, with that shoebox." So they got me a little cardboard diatonic accordion-I still have it. I started to play the National Anthem, and things like that. It seems I was musically gifted-but my parents just never pushed in that direction.

    Father   Son   Sunday  
  • My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income. And I got fascinated with it, so she backed off and let me do it.

    Mother   Home   Play  
    Source: artsmania.ca
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Men   Thinking   Guitar  
  • 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.

    Father   Eye   Men  
    Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.515, RH Childrens Books
  • 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.

    Play   Space   Long  
    Source: www.artpractical.com
  • 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.

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