80 Ukulele Quotes
Following is our list of ukulele quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about learning ukulele.
Famous Ukulele Quotes
I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well. — Don Henley
One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele. — Mary Schmich
There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy. — Jeff Lynne
It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home. — Sayings
When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs. — Tony Visconti
Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place. — Jake Shimabukuro
To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em. — Paul McCartney
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole — Keith Richards
I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself. — Johnny Winter
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. — Andres Segovia
The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few. — Franz Schubert
The violin - that most human of all instruments. — Louisa May Alcott
But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go. — Eric Clapton
The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin. — Steve Goodman
I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic. — Daniel Ek
Short Ukulele Quotes
- I started doing improv my sophomore year. — Rachel Dratch
- We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs. — Edgar Winter
- The ukulele is the instrument of peace. — Jake Shimabukuro
- There's no ego when you're a ukulele player. — Jake Shimabukuro
- Tough like a Ukulele. — Kool Keith
- When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company. — Mark Harmon
- I think beating someone to death with a ukulele would just sound funny. — Dane Cook
- If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy. — Bette Midler
- I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old. — Edgar Winter
- When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map. — Michael Stipe
Playing Ukulele Quotes
The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play. — Tony Visconti
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer. — Ben Bagdikian
I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody. — Eddie Vedder
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
How do I relax? This might sound slightly ridiculous but I play the ukulele for at least an hour a day and I find something really blissful about it. — Frank Skinner
I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities." — Eddie Vedder
I had simply been inspired by Arthur Godfrey (40's) and Ukulele Ike and Cliff Edwards (20's). In there day, they were huge in this country. I bought Godfrey's book "You Too Can Learn To Play Ukulele" and taught myself. It's a very romantic instrument. You can take it on a canoe. — Tiny Tim
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
Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney. — Jake Shimabukuro
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
People Writing About Ukulele
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Jake Shimabukuro |
22 | 123 |
 Edgar Winter |
21 | 152 |
 Don Henley |
68 | 512 |
 Mary Schmich |
55 | 496 |
 Jeff Lynne |
22 | 107 |
 Sayings |
6895 | 535 |
More Ukulele Quotes
Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand. — George Formby
Sometimes I can't think of a better way to end my day than coming home and just strumming my ukulele for a few minutes. I mean, I joke around and tell people that it's an entire yoga session in one strum, you know? — Jake Shimabukuro
I've been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out of the apartment building and make room for some new occupants.I need to make room for the bassoon record. — Eddie Vedder
The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing. — Jake Shimabukuro
The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself. — Anatoly Chubais
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
I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure. — Shalom Harlow
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
Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born. — Cindy Crawford
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
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
When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant. — Mike Lookinland
It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out. — Jeff Ament
I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar. — Bobby McFerrin
Laughter brings out the child in all of us. — Bill Cosby
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
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
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