Thielemans Toots Quotes & Sayings

Integrity is better capital than money. You can accumulate it just like money, and you can use it just like money, but it goes further, and is enduring. — Strive Masiyiwa

Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil. — John Dryden

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere.
Sam Spade — Dashiell Hammett

but there was still something about Freddie. Something . . . disarming, infectious, familiar. In an auditorium full of stares, his was the gaze she felt. — Victoria Schwab

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly. — Donald Fagen

Christ never promises peace in the sense of no more struggle and suffering. Instead, he helps us to struggle and suffer as he did, in love, for one another. Christ does not give us security in the sense of something in this world, some cause, some principle, some value, which is forever. Instead, he tells us that there is nothing in this world that is forever, all flesh is grass. He does not promise us unlonely lives. His own life speaks loud of how, in a world where there is little love, love is always lonely. Instead of all these, the answer that he gives, I think, is himself. If we go to him for anything else, he may send us away empty or he may not. But if we go to him for himself, I believe that we go away always with this deepest of all our hungers filled. — Frederick Buechner

The harmonica is a great instrument. — Toots Thielemans

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians. — Toots Thielemans

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

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

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

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

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way. — Thelonious Monk

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

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

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie. — Allen Ginsberg

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

What happens across the planet can have a greater impact on your family than what happens down the street. — Marco Rubio