The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

- Jake Shimabukuro

There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.

- Zooey Deschanel

Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.

- Tift Merritt

I do one thing Gielgud didn't: I play the ukulele.

- Roger Rees

One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

- Mary Schmich

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

- Kris Allen

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.

- Jake Shimabukuro

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a touring ukulele player.

- Jake Shimabukuro

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.

- Jake Shimabukuro

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

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

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

- Jake Shimabukuro

If everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place.

- Jake Shimabukuro

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

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

- Edgar Winter

I play the ukulele. Is that quirky?

- David Ramsey

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

- Don Henley

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

- Dick Dale