Ukulele Quotes

Ukulele Quote of the day

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.

One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

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

I started doing improv my sophomore year.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

The ukulele is the instrument of peace.

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.

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

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

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.

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.

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

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

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

Tough like a Ukulele.

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

Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.

When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company.

I think beating someone to death with a ukulele would just sound funny.

If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.

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

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.

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.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

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.

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.

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

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.

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Laughter brings out the child in all of us.

As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.

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

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.

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

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

It feels much more natural to move forward and grow with the instruments I've grown accustomed to. Piano, accordion, brass, ukulele.

I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only things I bought myself were the trumpet and the $9 ukulele.

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