I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.

- Dick Dale

I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!

- Jerome Richardson

I don't let everyone pick me up. I only let myself be picked up by whomever I want to be picked up by.

- Jyoti Amge

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.

- John Schneider

No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money.

- Jonathan Rhys Meyers

If we had picked Manziel, he'd guarantee our relevance for 10 years.

- Jerry Jones

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

- Jim Carrey

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.

- Geezer Butler

'Brothers McMullen' would not be picked up for theatrical distribution now.

- Edward Burns

I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.

- Eric Clapton

For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don't know why they picked me. That's what I've always done.

- Alan Jackson

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

- Dave Pelzer

I had developed a sitcom with UPN, but it wasn't picked up.

- Charisma Carpenter

When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.

- Chuck Yeager

I do what I want. It's because I got booed and picked on that I really don't care anymore.

- B.o.B

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

- Ahmet Zappa

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.

- Andre Rieu

There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away.

- Alexa Vega

'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.

- Ann Leckie

I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.

- Alexandra Guarnaschelli