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Tag Name "Ukulele" (41)

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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
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I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, Hmmm, this has some possibilities.
Eddie Vedder
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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.
Zach Condon
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I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I gained from hearing the melodies come out, and then applying that to guitar or vocals.
Eddie Vedder
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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.
Zooey Deschanel
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I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.
Edgar Winter
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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
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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
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The ukulele is the instrument of peace.
Jake Shimabukuro
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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
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The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.
Jake Shimabukuro
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I can start playing ukulele and then I'll go to a note that I think will be there, but because of the tuning, it's a completely different note. That excites me. That's why I had the ukulele around in the first place, years ago. It was to just break out of habits.
Jherek Bischoff
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Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele.
John Hodgman
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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 McClure
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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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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
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My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.
Pete Seeger
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
Bette Midler
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Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.
Tift Merritt
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I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.
Don Henley
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It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.
William H. Macy
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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
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It feels much more natural to move forward and grow with the instruments I've grown accustomed to. Piano, accordion, brass, ukulele.
Zach Condon
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We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.
Edgar Winter
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