I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a…

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

— Max Schneider

I was done with my second major label deal, and I was doing a lot of urban sessions, and I had an acoustic itch.…

— LP

Bill Gates recently picked up the ukulele. And Warren Buffett is a huge ukulele fan. I even got to strum a few chords with…

— Jake Shimabukuro

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.

— Joe Cocker

I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way - I didn't know how to play, but I knew I had…

— Lou Doillon

I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.

— Eliot Sumner

Like all teenagers in the early '60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a guitar. We…

— Rick Moranis

And, so, when I picked up the guitar, suddenly, just playing a couple of notes really, really spoke to me. It was almost like…

— Slash

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be…

— Slash

I picked up the guitar at 12 yrs old - basically, my mother and father bought it for me for Christmas. I played one…

— Greg Lake

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

— Stone Gossard

I was trained at classical piano as a youngster back in PA. To rebel, I bought a drum set and played in some rock…

— Jeff Cardoni

I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of…

— James Blunt

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

— Dick Dale

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