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I remember I asked my mom for a ukulele, and she said no because she thought I would never play it. So then I got my birthday money up, and I bought my own. It was the most rebellious thing I've ever done.
Grace VanderWaal
Mom
Birthday
Money
Remember
Thought
Own
Ukulele
Would
My Own
Never
Bought
Most
She
Because
Said
Got
Up
Done
Then
Asked
Rebellious
Ever
Play
Thing
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
I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.
Joan Baez
Man
Guitar
College
Young
Saw
Hooked
Ukulele
See
Knew
Sing
Go
Want
Wanted
After
Young Man
Play
Playing
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.
Pierce Brosnan
Love
Beautiful
Innocent
Melodic
Ukulele
Something
Instrument
Got
Just
Romantic
Grand
Play
Tone
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?
Anna Kendrick
You
Own
Side
Ukulele
Would
Find
My Own
Could
Like
Know
Personal
Ward
If I Could
Play
Album
We, America, elected Trump. Putin didn't do it, nor the trolls in St. Petersburg with their zillions of busy bots. They may well have plucked certain strings in the national psyche - played us like a dimestore ukulele - but we were keen to be plucked.
Ben Fountain
National
Busy
Strings
Ukulele
Plucked
Putin
Like
Well
Were
Nor
Trump
America
May
Psyche
Elected
Us
Certain
Keen
Played
I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.
Billie Eilish
Myself
Those
Ukulele
Piano
Because
Just
Taught
Just Because
Wanted
Them
Play
Things
Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to play some chords, so I was laying down 'Hound Dog' and things like that when I was 10 years old in 1955. That's the way I was. My ear was glued to the radio. I knew right then what I wanted to do.
Bob Seger
Myself
Me
Book
Dog
Old
Father
Down
Bass
Gave
Elvis
Way
Ukulele
Some
Laying
Knew
Along
Hound
Like
How
Glued
Came
Years
Taught
Wanted
Then
Radio
Chords
Play
Right
Things
Ear
I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.
Dick Dale
Guitar
First
Before
Ukulele
Picked
Up
Actually
I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.
Dick Dale
You
Old
Reading
Doors
Skin
Sold
Kid
Ukulele
Out
Magazine
About
Massachusetts
Said
Years
Sell
Snow
Where
Little
Cream
Little Kid
Many
Twelve
Ad
Raised
My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played along with him.
Dickey Betts
Music
Ukulele
Had
Along
Him
Been
Heard
Lot
Child
Fiddle
Fiddler
Daddy
Played
I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.
Dickey Betts
Seven
Ukulele
About
Had
Around
Banjo
Mandolin
Then
Started
Playing
I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.
Don Henley
Me
First
Think
Gave
Ukulele
Pretty
Know
Instrument
Well
How
Used
Play
I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.
Edgar Winter
Old
Ukulele
Out
Years
Started
Playing
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.
George Formby
Alone
Time
Me
Crazy
Business
People
Own
Every
Every Time
Everybody
Ukulele
Out
See
Some
Crowd
No-One
Like
Got
Go
Mix
Hand
Up
As Far As
Little
Far
Notion
Now
Stare
I've become a ukulele hoarder.
Grace VanderWaal
Become
Ukulele
I started writing once I got the ukulele.
Grace VanderWaal
Writing
Once
Ukulele
Got
Started
I would love to sit down and do only the ukulele with a very small crowd. I would also like to sing the super poppy songs and all the background stuff. I think both would be an interesting path.
Grace VanderWaal
Love
Path
Sit
Down
Think
Background
Ukulele
Would
Would-Be
Super
Only
Small
Both
Crowd
Songs
Stuff
Like
Sing
Also
Very
Interesting
Poppy
What I think is cool about Fender, and what originally drew me to them, was the Fender electric guitar headstock, which I've never seen on another ukulele. I feel like a rock star when I'm tuning it.
Grace VanderWaal
Me
Guitar
Seen
Think
Ukulele
About
Drew
Never
Feel
Like
Another
Rock
Rock Star
Fender
Tuning
Which
Them
Electric
Electric Guitar
Cool
Star
Originally
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
It was never part of how I imagined my music, and I watched in awe at how this ukulele troubadour image suddenly devoured the Jens Lekman I had planned so carefully.
Jens Lekman
Music
Carefully
Ukulele
Never
Had
Part
Devoured
How
Planned
Suddenly
Awe
Image
Watched
Imagined
My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.
Joe Perry
Family
Guitar
Wait
Old
Dinner
Uncle
Seven
Spend
Ukulele
Out
Would
Folk
Folk Songs
Finish
Could
Had
Songs
He
Hours
House
Him
Making
Sounds
Fender
His
Years
Version
Get
Hands
Hands-On
Eight
After
Used
Electric
Electric Guitar
Play
Amp
Portuguese
Pull
II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.
Kris Allen
School
Ukulele
High
High School
About
Through
Know
Up
Very
Grade
Grew
Little
Actually
Viola
Playing
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