Best Ukulele Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.”

Needs Done Choices Can Do Picks Tools Ukulele

“Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.”

Writing Humans Force Women Love Is Wonderful Strange Irrational Wonderful Things Ukulele

Author:Amy Dickinson

“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.”

May Play Culture Stars Player Hero Train Pops Traditional Hawaii Popular Culture Pop Stars Ukulele

Author:Jake Shimabukuro

“My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.”

Age Mother Eight Tunes Ukulele

Author:Pete Seeger

“I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.”

Play Bits Guitar Piano Back In The Day Ukulele Playing Piano

Author:Max Schneider

“As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.”

Trying Littles Dresses Guitar Treasure Heels High Heels Suitcases Banjos Ukulele

Author:Valerie June

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

Years Ukulele

Author:Edgar Winter

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

Player Ego Ukulele

Author:Jake Shimabukuro

“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?”

People Thinking Knows Way Mean I Can Ends Sometimes Home Minutes Jokes Yoga Coming Home Session Better Ways Ukulele Strumming

Author:Jake Shimabukuro

“Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele.”

Shows Song Humanity My Own Habit Singing Providing Closing Ukulele

Author:John Hodgman

“Another goal that I have is to learn how to play the ukulele - should be fun - and to stop taking my clothes off for money. But I need money. That is a ridiculous goal. I'm gonna cross that one off. That's stupid.”

Needs Should Play Humor Funny Fun Goal Stupid Clothes Crosses Ridiculous Ukulele Need Money

Author:Kristen Schaal

“So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.”

Knows Writing Book Country Song Stuff My Own Western Chords Ukulele Country Western

Author:John Fahey

“Growing up, the ukulele was always a respected instrument. It's a big part of our culture. It wasn't until I started traveling outside of Hawaii that I realized people didn't really consider the ukulele to be a real instrument.”

People Real Bigs Culture Growing Up Growing Instruments I Realized Hawaii Ukulele

Author:Jake Shimabukuro

“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.”

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

Thinking Sound Ukulele

Author:Dane Cook

“The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.”

Generations Ukulele Older Generation

Author:Jake Shimabukuro

“I always feel a little funny being in front of a lot of people trying to show them my approach to the ukulele, but I do enjoy it. I do get a little more nervous doing workshops rather than performing.”

People Feels Trying Littles Shows Enjoy Fronts Approach Nervous Performing Workshops Ukulele

Author:Jake Shimabukuro

“I had simply been inspired by Arthur Godfrey (40's) and Ukulele Ike and Cliff Edwards (20's). In there day, they were huge in this country. I bought Godfrey's book "You Too Can Learn To Play Ukulele" and taught myself. It's a very romantic instrument. You can take it on a canoe.”

Book Country Play Taught Huge Instruments Inspired Cliffs Arthur Ukulele Very Romantic

Author:Tiny Tim

“When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.”

Art Play School Song Teaching Months Six Singing Folks Six Months Belts Art School Novices Ukulele Folk Songs Baritones

Author:Joni Mitchell

“I've been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out of the apartment building and make room for some new occupants.I need to make room for the bassoon record.”

Needs Writing Years Song Rooms Clear Records Building Apartment Collecting Ukulele Bassoon

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."”

Minutes Possibility Seven Ukulele Hmmm Owning It

Author:Eddie Vedder

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

Littles Machines Strings Melody Songwriting Motto Miniatures Ukulele

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I gained from hearing the melodies come out, and then applying that to guitar or vocals.”

Writing Trying Able Guitar Hearing Melody Songwriting Vocal Ukulele

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.”

“I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it as that. But I was playing guitar and ukulele when I was in second grade.”

I Can Young Guitar Grades Playing Guitar Ukulele Scribbles

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only things I bought myself were the trumpet and the $9 ukulele.”

Budgets Smallest Equipment Trumpets Ukulele

Author:Zach Condon

“Playing the ukulele and singing is a fantastic stress reliever. So is cleaning! Scrubbing away at the dirt helps clear my mind as well.”

Mind Wells Helping Clear Singing Stress Fantastic Dirt Cleaning Ukulele Stress Reliever

Author:Kandyse McClure

“I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.”

Sound Guitar I Realized Ukulele

Author:Lola Kirke

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

Ifs Picks Ukulele

Author:Bette Midler

“I wasn't popular in school, I was Mexican, I was all these inappropriate things. I started playing the ukulele and taking it to school, and I realized people liked listening to it. I would play it to comfort myself at home, and I'd play rhythm and blues songs that had four chords. That's how it started.”

People Play Home School Song Four Listening Comfort I Realized Rhythm Chords Mexican Inappropriate Ukulele Rhythm And Blues

Author:Joan Baez

“I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.”

Actresses Ukulele

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.”

Sometimes Play Groups Battle Band Ukulele Group Of Friends

Author:Mike Myers

“My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.”

Fine Terrible Nerves Gigs Ukulele

Author:John Bonham

“Bill Gates recently picked up the ukulele. And Warren Buffett is a huge ukulele fan. I even got to strum a few chords with Francis Ford Coppola. It blows my mind that these people, who have everything in the world they could want, have picked up the ukulele and found a little bit of joy.”

People World Want Mind Littles Joy Found Bits Fans Huge Little Bit Bills Blow Gates Chords Ukulele Buffett

Author:Jake Shimabukuro

“Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.”

Firsts Mean Remember Father Memories My Own Tree Let Me Details Naked Piano Breasts Womb Ohio Columbus Attics Ukulele Polling Mckinley Columbus Ohio

Book:THE THURBER CARNIVAL

Source: THE THURBER CARNIVAL

“I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.”

I Can Girl Serious Research Lust Video Cute Tunes 80s Youtube Fetish Ukulele

Book:Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.”

Adventure Travel Apartment Funny Travel Ukulele

Author:Shalom Harlow

“Tough like a Ukulele.”

Tough Hip Hop Ukulele

Author:Kool Keith

“Laughter brings out the child in all of us.”

Children Laughter Ukulele

Author:Bill Cosby

“I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.”

Writing School Acting New York High School Ukulele

Author:Eric Bogosian

“I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.”

Knows Love Whole Careers Comedy Actresses Admire Emma Ukulele

Author:Gene Wilder

“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.”

Play Might Sound Hours Ridiculous Relax Ukulele

Author:Frank Skinner

“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.”

Years Firsts Age Learning Heard Inspired Guitar Radio Rock N Roll Ukulele

Author:Johnny Winter

“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.”

Play Song Father Parent Five Taught Christmas Guidance Old Fashioned Ukulele

Author:Tony Visconti

“I started writing stories as a child.”

Writing Children Stories Literature Writing Stories Ukulele

Author:Danielle Steel

“I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.”

Firsts Problem Today Adults Animation Outrageous Ukulele

Author:Ralph Bakshi

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

Faces Actors Mirrors Fake People Good Actors Ukulele

Book:I'd love to kiss you--

Source: I'd love to kiss you--

“The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.”

Trying Property Killing Private Property Abolish Ukulele Bolsheviks

Author:Anatoly Chubais

“An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.”

World Invention Make Sense Ukulele

Author:Tim O'Reilly

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

Ifs World Would Be This World Ukulele

Author:Jake Shimabukuro

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