Ukulele Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.

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