My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place. — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years… — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine. — John Bonham Copy Share Image
Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Strumming a ukulele just right can make you sound like a pro, even if you only know one chord.” — Wilson Villanueva Copy Share Image
It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home. — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
I love the fact that people don't see the ukulele as a serious instrument. A lot of people see it as more… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
I remember I asked my mom for a ukulele, and she said no because she thought I would never play it. So… — Grace VanderWaal Copy Share Image
I always feel a little funny being in front of a lot of people trying to show them my approach to the… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
“At the ukulele workshop that summer. He lectured on the four-note chord in the context of timelessness, and described himself then as… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
One interesting thing - I play bass and guitar and stuff like that. I know those instruments really well. But I don't… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
Playing the ukulele and singing is a fantastic stress reliever. So is cleaning! Scrubbing away at the dirt helps clear my mind… — Kandyse McClure Copy Share Image
One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar. — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar. — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant. — Mike Lookinland Copy Share Image
It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics.… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
