Accordion Quotes

While in prison, we had an excellent pianist named Jimmy Bunn, who also recorded with Bird. Jimmy would play a small accordion, and he, Art and I would play all day, nothing but ballads. - Frank Morgan

When I was wearing that green outfit (as an inmate in the county jail) I would always look forward to that little man with the big accordion. - Charles Sullivan

TMBG is one of the main reasons I play accordion in the first place. - Corn Mo

The whole thing fell in like an accordion, ... Anybody who was out in that room would have been dead. - Charles Spencer

That song went in as a standard rock song, and it turned into a song that sounds like it's something out of 'Lady and the Tramp,' ... It's got accordion and jazz flute on it. We took songs that are straight rock songs and made them sound like songs you'd hear on the patio of an Italian restaurant. - Doug Robb

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician. - Toots Thielemans

My goal when I started was to play arenas with just my accordion. - Corn Mo

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

John is starting to sound like the accordion player who only knows one tune: 'Lady of Spain,' - Orrin Hatch