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Jake Shimabukuro
American
Musician
Born:
Nov 3
,
1976
Better
Music
People
Ukulele
World
You
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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
Smile
You
Down
Guard
Ukulele
Out
About
Something
Makes
Child
Just
Us
Your
Brings
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
Culture
Heroes
Stars
Ukulele
Hawaii
Like
Most
Eddie
Traditional
George
Were
George Harrison
Train
May
McCartney
Paul
Paul McCartney
Pop
Taylor
Taylor Swift
Certainly
Pop Stars
Swift
Popular
Popular Culture
Play
Players
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
Day
Home
You
People
Better
Sometimes
Joke
Few
Think
Way
Ukulele
Tell
Minutes
Entire
Better Way
Know
Around
Coming
Coming Home
End
Than
Yoga
Just
Mean
Session
There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.
Jake Shimabukuro
You
Ego
Ukulele
Player
The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.
Jake Shimabukuro
Generation
Older
Ukulele
Always
Appealed
Older Generation
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.
Jake Shimabukuro
You
Try
Girl
Impress
Older
Meeting
Out
Songs
Know
Instrument
How
Get
Want
Happen
Them
Turn
Turn-On
Figure
Radio
Popular
Play
Start
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
Music
You
Better
Nothing
Relate
Kids
Songs
Sharing
Like
Talking
Familiar
Than
Just
Them
Play
Need
I think everyone should feel like they can make music, they can create music.
Jake Shimabukuro
Music
Think
Everyone
Feel
Like
Make
Create
Should
Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.
Jake Shimabukuro
Art
Jazz
Takes
Understand
Decades
Appreciate
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
You
Yourself
Style
Martial
Martial Arts
Bruce
Bruce Lee
He
Another
Because
Limit
Styles
Lee
Human
Just
Arts
Different
Form
Loved
Different Styles
Expression
Believed
You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.
Jake Shimabukuro
Music
You
Language
Think
Know
Very
Interactive
One of the biggest things that happened for me was YouTube.
Jake Shimabukuro
Me
YouTube
Happened
Biggest
Biggest Things
Things
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
You
Guitar
Down
More
Could
Wrist
Smaller
Arm
Biceps
Up
Up And Down
Quicker
Efficient
Move
Just
Turn
Realized
Much
Your
Using
Play
Muscles
You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.
Jake Shimabukuro
Time
Great
You
Amazing
Our
Our Time
Know
Geniuses
Just
Really
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