Les Claypool

I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the same pictures... should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same.

American Musician

Connie Francis

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.

John Lydon

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.

English Musician

Lawrence Welk

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.

Ricky Jay

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

American Actor

Nicolas Cage

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.

Actor

Toots Thielemans

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

Belgian Musician

Pat Mastelotto

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

Jose Feliciano

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.

Puerto Rican Musician

Norman Schwarzkopf

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

American General

Understand 'accordion' as a folk and traditional music staple, less common in modern genres.

Music Context

'Accordion' can symbolize cultural identity, especially in European and Latin music.

Cultural Symbol

Mention the accordion's versatility in sound and genre, despite being stereotyped with folk.

Versatile Instrument

Understand that 'accordion' as an adjective indicates flexibility and space-saving features.

Functional Design

Know 'accordion' applies to everyday objects like wallets and doors for their expanding nature.

Everyday Use

'Accordion' as an adjective often creates a vivid image of the object's mobility and flexibility.

Descriptive Imagery

 So, another strategy we're following is actually to create wafers that we stack together, like an accordion, if you will. So, we stack these wafers together, using the kidney cells. And then you can see these miniature kidneys that we've engineered. They are actually making urine.

Anthony Atala: Growing...

 that's really unheard of in animals with backbones in addition to being able to shrink they can grow again sort of like an accordion to explore how the iguana's altered their size so dramatically the team is

How Marine Iguanas are...

 half year old girl I am part of the music continuum and I am part of this difficult world and I'm often naked and play the accordion