My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.
It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.
When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.
While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.
I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.
It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.
I had a $1. 50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities. "
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.
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'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.
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.
When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.
There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.
The ukulele is the instrument of peace.
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.
Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.
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.
