Top 70 Quotes About Ukulele

#1. I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.

Dick Dale

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#2. 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

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

Don Henley

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#4. Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.

Tift Merritt

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#5. I mostly play old period songs, as they suit a ukulele more. I bought it when I saw the tribute concert to George Harrison. Joe Brown came on and sang 'I'll See You In My Dreams,' and there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

Charles Dance

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#6. I love the fact that people don't see the ukulele as a serious instrument. A lot of people see it as more of a toy, and I love that because it just proves that people aren't intimidated by the instrument. They aren't afraid to pick it up.

Jake Shimabukuro

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#7. I love crafting. Knitting, decoupage, scrapbooking, any "lady-ish" art form, I'm a fan. For about six months each. Then I shove all the supplies in a closet, alongside the skeletons of long dead New Year's resolutions, like saber fencing, playing the ukulele, and Japanese brush painting.

Felicia Day

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#8. There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.

Zooey Deschanel

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#9. When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a touring ukulele player.

Jake Shimabukuro

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#10. Quit the bitching on your blog
And stop pretending art is hard.
Just limit yourself to three chords
And do not practice daily.
You'll minimize some stranger's sadness
With a piece of wood and plastic.
Holy fuck it's so fantastic,
Playing ukulele.

Amanda Palmer

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#11. There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.

Jake Shimabukuro

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

Jake Shimabukuro

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#13. 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

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#14. I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.

Pierce Brosnan

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#15. Is that a ukulele?" I ask.
We stop and listen closely. "Actually," says Elena, "it's a bunch of ukuleles.

Paul Acampora

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#16. A man of honor never surrenders his ukulele.

Rick Riordan

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#17. The amplified ukulele music was giving me a migraine.

Laird Barron

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#18. I play the ukulele. Is that quirky?

David Ramsey

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#19. I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.

Dick Dale

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#20. 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

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#21. Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.

Eddie Vedder

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#22. 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.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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#23. II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

Kris Allen

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#24. 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.

Tiny Tim

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#25. The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

Jake Shimabukuro

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#26. 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.

Jake Shimabukuro

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#27. 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.

Mike Myers

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#28. 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

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

Zooey Deschanel

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#30. I bring my ukulele everywhere I go, play a little music in the park, always have it with me.

Max Schneider

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

Edgar Winter

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#32. Strumming a ukulele just right can make you sound like a pro, even if you only know one chord.

Wilson Villanueva

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#33. 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.

Kristen Schaal

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#34. If I could play the ukulele like Zooey Deschanel, I would find my own personal M. Ward, and we would do a side album; but I don't, you know?

Anna Kendrick

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#35. When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company.

Mark Harmon

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#36. Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.

Ben Bagdikian

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

Kandyse McClure

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#38. 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

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#39. 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

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

Dane Cook

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#41. Perhaps Dexter's dutiful but uninspired brain pictured him as Sherlock Holmes, able to examine the wheel ruts and deduce that a left-handed hunchback with red hair and a limp had gone down the road carrying a Cuban cigar and a ukulele. I would find no clues, not that it mattered.

Jeff Lindsay

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#42. 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.

Jake Shimabukuro

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#43. Tough like a Ukulele.

Kool Keith

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

Jeff Lynne

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

Pete Seeger

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#46. I didn't understand the purpose of the seeds, but it was comforting to know that in a dire emergency I could hit people with my ukulele while Meg planted geraniums.

Rick Riordan

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#47. 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.

Zach Condon

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

Joni Mitchell

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

William H. Macy

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#50. I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Joan Baez

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#51. 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.

Eddie Vedder

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#52. Leo didn't usually think of the ukulele as a sad instrument. (Pathetic, sure. But not sad.) Yet the tune Apollo strummed was so melancholy it broke Leo's feels.

Rick Riordan

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#53. 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.

Max Schneider

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#54. I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

Dwayne Johnson

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

Eddie Vedder

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#56. If everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place.

Jake Shimabukuro

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#57. You know, the ukulele itself is not a very loud instrument, all right? And, you know, compared to like a trumpet, right? A trumpet is really loud.

Jake Shimabukuro

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

Mary Schmich

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

Amy Dickinson

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#60. On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.

Carol Burnett

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#61. 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

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

Jake Shimabukuro

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#63. Does Zeus have a perfect tan? Can he play the ukulele? I think not!

Rick Riordan

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#64. 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.

Eddie Vedder

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

Valerie June

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#66. I could hit people with my ukulele

Rick Riordan

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#67. 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

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#68. 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.

Jake Shimabukuro

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#69. 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.

John Hodgman

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#70. The ukulele is the instrument of peace,

Jake Shimabukuro

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