Ukulele Quotes

• One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

  Mary Schmich

  World, Lessons, Want

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• The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

  Tony Visconti

  Son, Guitar, Years

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• Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.

  George Formby

  Crazy, Hands, People

  Song: With My Little Ukelele In My Hand

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• I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

  Don Henley

  Thinking, Play, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

  Tony Visconti

  Christmas, Song, Father

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• I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

  Johnny Winter

  Learning, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.

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• There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

  Jeff Lynne

  Sound, Can Do

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• If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.

  Bette Midler

  Picks, Ifs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

  Edgar Winter

  Song, Brother, Years

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• To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.

  Paul McCartney

  Play, Ems, Grownups

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• I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Guitar, Play, Piano

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• The ukulele is the instrument of peace.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Instruments

  "BYT Interviews: Jake Shimabukuro". Interview with Jade Salazar, brightestyoungthings.com. April 23, 2013.

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• It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.

  William H. Macy

  Home, Halfway, Picks

  "Ukulele Days" by Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. October 13, 2014.

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• Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Would Be, World, Ifs

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• There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Player, Ego

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• Tough like a Ukulele.

  Kool Keith

  Hip Hop, Tough

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• I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

  Eddie Vedder

  Machines, Littles, Motto

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• How do I relax? This might sound slightly ridiculous but I play the ukulele for at least an hour a day and I find something really blissful about it.

  Frank Skinner

  Play, Relax, Might

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• I think beating someone to death with a ukulele would just sound funny.

  Dane Cook

  Thinking, Sound

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• The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Senior, Hipster, Home

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Sometimes I can't think of a better way to end my day than coming home and just strumming my ukulele for a few minutes. I mean, I joke around and tell people that it's an entire yoga session in one strum, you know?

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Yoga, Home, Mean

  FaceBook post by Jake Shimabukuro from Sep 18, 2014

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• Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

  Bette Davis

  Fake People, Mirrors, Actors

  Whitney Stine, Bette Davis (1990). “"I'd love to kiss you-- ": conversations with Bette Davis”, Thorndike Pr

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• I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

  Edgar Winter

  Years

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• Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Stars, Hero, Player

  "Jake Shimabukuro On His Ukulele Heroes, ‘Rolling In The Deep,’ And His Dream Song To Cover". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.

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• When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.

  Kid Koala

  Kids, Cities, Wave

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