Top 102 Ukulele Quotes & Sayings

I love music, and playing ukulele and singing makes me really happy.

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

The ukulele is the instrument of peace.

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

I started writing once I got the ukulele.

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.

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

Tough like a Ukulele.

Playing the ukulele and singing is a fantastic stress reliever. So is cleaning! Scrubbing away at the dirt helps clear my mind as well.

I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.

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

I play the ukulele. Is that quirky?

I always have a guitar or ukulele in the trailer, and I write songs. That keeps me in an artistic mind-set.

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 was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it as that. But I was playing guitar and ukulele when I was in second grade.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

I was done with my second major label deal, and I was doing a lot of urban sessions, and I had an acoustic itch. And you know, I picked up a ukulele. I always wanted one. And it just resonated with me. I would wake up with this uke in my hand. For me the ukulele just opened this door in my heart.

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

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

I like to play the guitar and the ukulele.

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

If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low, warm feel to it.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 bring my ukulele everywhere I go, play a little music in the park, always have it with me.

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 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.

If I could play the ukulele like Zooey Deschanel, I would find my own personal M. Ward, and we would do a side album; but I don't, you know?

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.

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.

The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.

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

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

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.

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

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

I wish I had started to play the ukulele much earlier in life.

If everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

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.

I've become a ukulele hoarder.

I had a ukulele when I was much younger. I have no idea what happened to it but I think that was part of it, just being inspired and wanting to try to play an instrument that, to me, sounded beautiful.

The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele.

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