Quotes by Jake Shimabukuro - Page 1

Hawaii is a small, close community.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Community
Hawaii
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The ukulele is the instrument of peace.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Instruments
Ukulele
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There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Ego
Player
Ukulele
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I still believe that music is healing to some extent.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Believe
Healing
Music Is
Extent
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Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Knows
Sound
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The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Generations
Older Generation
Ukulele
Appealed
Generation
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One of the biggest things that happened for me was YouTube.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Youtube
Biggest Things
Me Things Happened
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Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Appreciate
Decades
Jazz
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If everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Better Place
Ukulele
World
Everyone
Played
World Better Place
Place
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Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Challenges
Classical Music
Pieces
World
Classical
Presents
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You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Interactive
Language
Music Is
Thinking
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I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Grow Up
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When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a touring ukulele player.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Touring
Ukulele
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Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Ukulele
World
Would Be
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Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Culture
Hip Hop
Lifestyle
Notes
Rocks
Blues
Hip
Hop
Page
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If I could do something with Paul McCartney it would be just amazing. Or Eric Clapton.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Eric
If I Could
Would Be
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Most people are awestruck when they see Lady Gaga and Bette Midler, but then the queen comes in.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Queens
Gaga
People
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You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Genius
Mastermind
Our Time
Time Great Amazing
Geniuses
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I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Able
Chords
Guitar
Jam
Session
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When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Get Up
People
Stage
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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.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Smile
Ukulele
Just
Child
Brings
Down
Guard
Makes
Something
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You know, the ukulele itself is not a very loud instrument, all right? And, you know, compared to like a trumpet, right? A trumpet is really loud.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Loud
Ukulele
Compared
Trumpet
Instrument
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There's nothing I like better than talking to kids, just sharing the music with them. To relate to them, you need to play songs they're familiar with.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Familiar
Relate
Sharing
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Bruce Lee loved all different styles of martial arts. He believed that you shouldn't limit yourself to one style, because martial arts is just another form of human expression.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Different Styles
Martial Arts
Arts
Believed
Bruce
Lee
Limit
Martial
Styles
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You get older, you start meeting girls, you want to impress them. And if you happen to know an instrument, what you do is turn on the radio and try to figure out how to play popular songs.
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Impress
Instrument
Meeting
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I always feel a little funny being in front of a lot of people trying to show them my approach to the ukulele, but I do enjoy it. I do get a little more nervous doing workshops rather than performing.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Nervous
People
Performing
Trying
Ukulele
Workshops
Funny People Feel
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I actually got to perform for Queen Elizabeth, and I got to meet her after the show. She said she thought my performance was beautiful and I got to shake her hand and it was just an incredible moment.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Queens
Beautiful
Hands
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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 / Composer
Yoga
Home
Coming Home
Mean
Minutes
Session
Ukulele
Better Day People
Around
Home Better People
Better Way
Coming
Joke
Day
Entire
Few
Tell
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When you play guitar and strum, you're using biceps and triceps to move up and down. I realized you could just turn your wrist, your forearm, using smaller muscles in your arm that are much more efficient and much quicker.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Biceps
Efficient
Muscles
Up And Down
Arm
Quicker
Smaller
Wrist
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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.
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Growing Up
Real
Ukulele
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I'm not the kind of person that can do the same thing over and over and over, so that's why touring, playing in a different venue every night, in front of a different audience, is so rewarding, you know, because it always feels fresh.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Every Night
Touring
Rewarding
Same Thing
Venue
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I love the fact that people don't see the ukulele as a serious instrument. A lot of people see it as more of a toy, and I love that because it just proves that people aren't intimidated by the instrument. They aren't afraid to pick it up.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Intimidated
Serious
Ukulele
Love People See
Afraid
Instrument
Pick
Proves
Toy
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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.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Hawaii
Hero
Player
Pop Stars
Popular Culture
Stars
Traditional
Ukulele
Eddie
George
Mccartney
Paul
Paul Mccartney
Swift
Taylor
Taylor Swift
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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 / Composer
Blow
Chords
Found
Gates
Huge
Joy
Little Bit
People
Ukulele
Bit
Bill
Bill Gates
Blows
Fan
Coppola
Few
Ford
Francis
Picked
Recently
Warren
Warren Buffett
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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.
Jake Shimabukuro / Composer
Home
Hipster
Senior
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