Jake Shimabukuro Ukulele Quotations

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

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.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

The ukulele is the instrument of peace,