Ukulele Quotes · Page 2

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

— Jake Shimabukuro

To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.

— Paul McCartney

While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.

— Charlene Tilton

The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele.

— Philip Pullman

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

— Pete Seeger

The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started.

— Marvin Davis

I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.

— Carlene Carter

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

— Jake Shimabukuro

I did not play guitar. I could tinker around on the ukulele, and that was about it. It was a real overhaul…

— Monica Barbaro

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

— Paul Acampora

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

— Richard Foreman

I started playing the ukulele in the year 2000. That sounds so futuristic saying it like that. The year 2000.

— Kate Micucci

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

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

— Lola Kirke

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

— Bobby McFerrin

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

— LP

When I was in Toronto shooting 'Hemlock Grove,' I'd spend a couple of hours in the makeup trailer every day because my…

— Madeline Brewer

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.…

— Zooey Deschanel

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by…

— Johnny Winter

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

— Jake Shimabukuro

Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone.…

— George Formby

My advice for someone just learning the ukulele would be to have fun with it and not take anything too seriously. Some…

— Grace VanderWaal

I can start playing ukulele and then I'll go to a note that I think will be there, but because of the…

— Jherek Bischoff

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

— Eddie Vedder

My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had…

— Tracy Austin

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

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

— Billie Eilish

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

— Lou Barlow

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

— Tift Merritt

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

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

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

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

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

— Max Schneider

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

— Don Henley

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

— Eddie Vedder

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