Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. Toots Thielemans More Quotes by Toots Thielemans More Quotes From Toots Thielemans Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden! Toots Thielemans musician garden rose 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 four practice morning 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 sunday father son 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 ifs believe 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 musician sunday parent My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine. Toots Thielemans machines three father Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians. Toots Thielemans musicians generation new today