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Toots Thielemans Quotes:

Toots Thielemans quotes

Ocupation: Jazz Musician

Life: b. April 29, 1922

Birthday: April 29

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Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

Topics: Garden, Rose, Musician, Rose Garden

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Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

Topics: Music, Generations, Alive, Playing Jazz

The harmonica is a great instrument.

Topics: Harmonicas, Instruments

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

Topics: Strong, Believe, Sentimentality

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

Topics: Father, Machines, Littles, Accordions

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

Topics: Morning, Practice, Four, Tokyo, Trombone

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.

Topics: Sunday, Parent, Gestures

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.

Topics: Father, Son, Sunday, Accordions, Squeezing

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