Quotes About Music

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

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.

I play the piano, drums, little bit of bass, guitar. I can play harmonica, a little bit of the ukulele. Pretty much anything that's a strumming, string type thing.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

When I was a teenager, my mom got me a really nice baritone ukulele.

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.

I'm an American songbook guy, though I've got eclectic tastes. I really love the American songbook. I've taken up the ukulele, and so you can play 'Five Foot Two' and Hawaiian music, but you can also do some of the great tunes, like 'You Go to My Head,' 'I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry,' 'Taking a Chance on Love.'

I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.

I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.

I like to play the guitar and the ukulele.

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.

The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele.

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.

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

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a touring ukulele player.

I do one thing Gielgud didn't: I play the ukulele.

It was never part of how I imagined my music, and I watched in awe at how this ukulele troubadour image suddenly devoured the Jens Lekman I had planned so carefully.

I have an all-black Mahalo ukulele - it's like my baby. It has brought me so much peace and comfort.

There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.

I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.

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.

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 mostly play old period songs, as they suit a ukulele more. I bought it when I saw the tribute concert to George Harrison. Joe Brown came on and sang 'I'll See You In My Dreams,' and there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

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