Toots Thielemans famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!
-- Toots Thielemans

#Garden #Rose #Musician
Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.
-- Toots Thielemans

#Music #Generations #Alive
The harmonica is a great instrument.
-- Toots Thielemans

#Harmonicas #Instruments
And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.
-- Toots Thielemans

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

#Father #Machines #Littles
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.
-- Toots Thielemans

#Morning #Practice #Four
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

#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.
-- Toots Thielemans

#Father #Son #Sunday

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.
There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.
Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and of adders.
Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.
It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?
I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.
I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral hippie mumu at 37, show up at 47 in see-through latex, and pose semi-naked, like Keith & co, on the cover of Rolling Stone at 57 and be APPLAUDED for being so comfortable with her body.

Toots Thielemans famous quotes

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