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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
Panther
Shark
Demon
Am
Accordion
Denver
Want
Acid
Bob
Lizard
Playing
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
Alfred Schnittke
You
Experience
First
Composer
Do You Know
Know
Concerto
Accordion
Very
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
Music
Time
You
Other
Guess
Fold
Feel
Over
Like
Passage
Years
Accordion
Much
Each
Found
I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.
Colm Meaney
School
Band
Minutes
Trombone
Accordion
Then
Less
Even
Played
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
Wish
Own
Definitely
Would
Hated
My Own
More
Piano
Never
Had
Songs
Taken
Written
Because
Encouraged
Accordion
Which
Played
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
Guitar
Sometimes
Girl
Bass
Kind
Would
Guys
Had
Part
Most
Sing
Singers
Without
Sound
Accordion
Bands
Same
Different
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Warriors
Thing
Played
Violin
My first dream was to travel. I was attracted to different places, different colors of skin, different food. When I was 18 in 1977, I went to Europe with my accordion and discovered the pleasure of entertaining people.
Guy Laliberte
Food
Travel
People
First
Skin
Pleasure
Dream
Entertaining
Entertaining People
Colors
Attracted
Discovered
Accordion
Different
Different Colors
Places
Different Places
Europe
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.
Hunter Hayes
Time
Learning
Writing
First
Own
Say
Gear
About
My Own
Studio
Stuff
Like
Demo
Know
Instrument
Around
Making
Doing
Making Up
Up
Accordion
Getting
Just
Anything
Interested
Really
Thing
Started
Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done.
Hunter Hayes
Music
Me
Learning
Heritage
Gave
Our
Kind
About
More
Instruments
Because
Up
Accordion
Louisiana
Ended
Done
Just
Just Kind
Happening
Grandmother
Really
Growing
Growing Up
Ever
Route
Started
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
Noise
Words
Better
Feelings
Down
Somehow
Emotion
Sound
Falling
Lot
Accordion
Quite
Quite A Lot
Whereas
Cannot
Staircase
Much
Capture
Express
Tone
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
Life
Myself
Great
People
Real Life
Nothing
Musician
See
Seemed
Crowds
Knew
Real
Accordion
Front
Standing
Playing
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
Lawrence Welk
Conversation
Young
Down
Some
Seem
Put
Around
Accordion
Lady
Young Lady
Floor
Swung
Necessary
The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.
Mary Steenburgen
Music
Myself
Slowly
Somehow
Having
Came
Accordion
Just
Taught
Play
Play Music
Desire
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
Work
Car
Big
Side
Would
Would-Be
Admiral
Hail
Come
Ford
His
Accordion
Chief
Flags
Used
Each
Assistant
Playing
Two
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
Music
Me
History
Made
Parents
Kid
Only
Taking
Studying
Him
Accordion
Stop
Lessons
Whose
My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.
Toots Thielemans
Me
Father
Three
Machine
Bought
Got
Accordion
Little
Cardboard
The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.
Jose Feliciano
Old
First
Instrument
Years
Accordion
Played
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