Ukulele Quotes - Page 2

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

  Eddie Vedder

  Seven, Possibility, Minutes

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• 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

  Writing, Guitar, Healthy

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• 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

  Play, Battle, Groups

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• 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

  Mean, Opposites, Guitar

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• 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

  Growing Up, Play, Inspire

  "The Rock: 'THAT is what I'm cooking'". Interview With Stuart Heritage, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2012.

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• My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.

  Tracy Austin

  Mind, Balls, Way

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• I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.

  Brownie McGhee

  New York, Years, Three

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• 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

  Blow, People, Joy

  FaceBook post by Jake Shimabukuro from Oct 29, 2014

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• 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

  High Heels, Guitar, Trying

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• 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

  People, Trying, Littles

  "Ukulele sensation Jake Shimabukuro talks going viral, new documentary and upcoming Tuscaloosa show". Interview with Coti Howell, www.al.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.

  Shalom Harlow

  Travel, Adventure, Apartment

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• 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

  Stress, Mind, Singing

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• 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

  Guitar, Scribbles, Young

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Growing Up, Real, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Simple, Childhood

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• I started doing improv my sophomore year.

  Rachel Dratch

  Years, Sophomore, Sophomore Year

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• Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.

  Kim Gordon

  Thinking, Kind, Members

  Interview with Chris Rolls, www.tv.com. June 12, 2006.

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• Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

  Al Jourgensen

  Sick, Drug, Enjoy

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• When I was five. That's when I started to love film.

  Dario Argento

  Film, Five, Love Films

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

  Charlene Tilton

  School, High School, Agents

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• I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

  Eric Bogosian

  New York, Writing, School

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• I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

  Gene Wilder

  Love, Careers, Actresses

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• I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

  Preston Sturges

  Night, Directors, Shooting

  Preston Sturges, Sandy Sturges (1991). “Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee and we had The Mountain Opry, where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.

  Rachel Boston

  Love, Heart, Guitar

  "5 Questions with Rachel Boston". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. April 19, 2013.

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• When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

  Michael Stipe

  Band, Maps, Athens

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