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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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