Ukulele Quotes · Page 2

I wish I had started to play the ukulele much earlier in life.

— Frank Skinner

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

— Jeff Lynne

I like to play the guitar and the ukulele.

— Tua Tagovailoa

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

— Jake Shimabukuro

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

— Dick Dale

I do one thing Gielgud didn't: I play the ukulele.

— Roger Rees

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

— Dane Cook

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

— Jake Shimabukuro

When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were…

— Anonymous

I have an all-black Mahalo ukulele - it's like my baby. It has brought me so much peace and comfort.

— Madeline Brewer

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

— John Bonham

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

— Kris Allen

As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that…

— Valerie June

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years…

— Brownie McGhee

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

— Eddie Vedder

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

— Kandyse McClure

I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if…

— Dick Dale

A family friend was staying with us once and had brought over a ukulele. I just loved the way she played it.…

— Grace VanderWaal

I would love to sit down and do only the ukulele with a very small crowd. I would also like to sing…

— Grace VanderWaal

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I…

— Al Jourgensen

I remember I asked my mom for a ukulele, and she said no because she thought I would never play it. So…

— Grace VanderWaal

You go to a studio with a guitar, people are like, 'Oh this girl's going to write this song on a guitar.'…

— LP

I always feel a little funny being in front of a lot of people trying to show them my approach to the…

— 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…

— Jake Shimabukuro

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

— Mary Schmich

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were…

— Manuel Puig

I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of…

— Max Schneider

My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and…

— Dickey Betts

Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to…

— Kim Gordon

There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child…

— Jake Shimabukuro

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

— Don Henley

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

— Mark Harmon

I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.

— Dickey Betts

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…

— Pierce Brosnan

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

— Tift Merritt

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You…

— Dwayne Johnson

If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low,…

— Lou Barlow

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

— Billie Eilish

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics.…

— Jeff Ament

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

— Mike Lookinland