Top 16 Toots Thielemans Quotes
#1. And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.
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#3. 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.
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#5. Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.
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#6. Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.
John Wesley
#7. Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
#8. You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?
Joel Coen
#9. My warhorse has new shoes" - Thomas Van Pelt
Donny Swords
#11. My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.
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#12. Because you want to keep playing pretend when all I want to do is make it real." He
Cookie O'Gorman
#13. Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.
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#14. I don't ask for guarantees. I'll tell you what I want. I want to laugh with you. Sit and look at you. Wake up with nothing to think about but how warm and smooth you feel against me. Make a life together. All of this has been worth it if we can have that.
Deborah Smith
#16. 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