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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."

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"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."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"My parents didn't really know one another."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"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."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."

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

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"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."

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

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

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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."

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