quotes about Ukulele
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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 -
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 -
Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.
-- Ben Linder -
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
-- Bette Davis -
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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 started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
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 -
While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.
-- Charlene Tilton -
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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 -
When I was five. That's when I started to love film.
-- Dario Argento -
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 started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.
-- Edgar Winter -
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I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.
-- Ernest ClineSource : Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.63, Random House
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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 -
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 FormbySource : Song: With My Little Ukelele In My Hand
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For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.
-- Gregg Easterbrook -
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The ukulele is the instrument of peace,
-- Jake ShimabukuroSource : "BYT Interviews: Jake Shimabukuro". Interview with Jade Salazar, brightestyoungthings.com. April 23, 2013.
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Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place.
-- Jake Shimabukuro -
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 ShimabukuroSource : FaceBook post by Jake Shimabukuro from Oct 29, 2014
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There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.
-- Jake Shimabukuro -
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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 -
There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.
-- Jeff Lynne -
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.
-- John Bonham -
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 WinterSource : Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.
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When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.
-- Kid Koala -
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 -
II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.
-- Kris Allen -
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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 -
When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company.
-- Mark Harmon -
The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started.
-- Marvin Davis -
One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.
-- Mary Schmich -
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I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.
-- Max Schneider -
When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.
-- Michael Stipe -
When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.
-- Mike Lookinland -
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 -
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My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.
-- Pete Seeger -
Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
-- Richard Foreman -
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 -
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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 -
It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
-- Venus Williams -
It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.
-- William H. MacySource : "Ukulele Days" by Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. October 13, 2014.
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I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.
-- Lola Kirke -
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Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.
-- Tift Merritt -
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
-- Tim O'Reilly -
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 -
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 McClureSource : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.
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