Jake Shimabukuro Quote

There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down....
JAKE SHIMABUKURO

If everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place.
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The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.
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When you play guitar and strum, you're using biceps and triceps to move up and down. I realized ...
JAKE SHIMABUKURO

Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There...
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Bill Gates recently picked up the ukulele. And Warren Buffett is a huge ukulele fan. I even got to s...
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Sometimes I can't think of a better way to end my day than coming home and just strumming my uku...
JAKE SHIMABUKURO

There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.
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I love the fact that people don't see the ukulele as a serious instrument. A lot of people see i...
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When I played my first chord, I was hooked. I fell in love with the instrument.
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[He often carries out melody lines and chords at the same time. Before a rendition of Franz Schubert...
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world class and incredible musicians.
JAKE SHIMABUKURO

I'm so touched. I had an awesome jam session in a classroom today.
JAKE SHIMABUKURO

I think it was actually a blessing in disguise that I come from Hawaii, where they just back up all ...
RYAN SHIMABUKURO

Welcome to the new age. The greatest age in history. The Technology Age.
JAKE JAKE JAKE

It's time, more than ever, to shrug off apathy. For Socialism not to be a dirty word any more. This ...
JAKE

The preparation is what allows the success to happen naturally.
JAKE ARRIETA

Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, ...
JAKE SULLIVAN

By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that int...
JAKE WOOD

We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night. But there was a time, not all ...
JAKE HALPERN

I like to get the body temperature up, the heart rate up. I'll do anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes...
JAKE ARRIETA

I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools...
JAKE LAMOTTA

If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would ...
JAKE JOHNSON

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don'...
JAKE SIMMONS

I try to start every day with some sort of vegetable and fruit juice before I eat any kind of solid ...
JAKE ARRIETA

In L.A., if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers an...
JAKE JOHNSON

It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when t...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and ...
JAKE SHEARS

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I pla...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.
JAKE STEINFELD

Even when I was hurt, I was always the aggressor, no matter what.
JAKE LAMOTTA

Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where lig...
JAKE HALPERN

Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action her...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

I've always wanted to be an action figure.
JAKE LLOYD

As far as I'm concerned, the best acting class is life.
JAKE MCLAUGHLIN

I look like an accountant. And no offense to accountants! There's some really cool accountants o...
JAKE LACY

You play your surroundings. You pitch accordingly. Not that I drastically try to change my game plan...
JAKE ARRIETA

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, i...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

You don't want to pretend that 9/11 ended in 2002 with the first anniversary. So how do you fram...
JAKE BARTON

Time flies really quickly. It feels like only a few months ago that I was traded over here and start...
JAKE ARRIETA

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

The snake will always bite back.
JAKE ROBERTS

The Hewitt sisters were these amazing - both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out an...
JAKE BARTON

The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I ...
JAKE OWEN

I like to take my dog on the road. He stays up front; he likes it there.
JAKE OWEN

Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I co...
JAKE OWEN

I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My...
JAKE OWEN

I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.
JAKE OWEN

I've got a vibe going on with a lot of what I've been doing, and to completely change it bas...
JAKE OWEN

But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a ...
JAKE OWEN

I'm from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I'm definite...
JAKE OWEN

Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's g...
JAKE OWEN

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there poss...
JAKE OWEN

Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choo...
JAKE OWEN

Everyone has their own path and you can't judge.
JAKE OWEN

Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what yo...
JAKE OWEN

At first I was a little leery to just post photos of my little girl all the time and kind of exploit...
JAKE OWEN

I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and ...
JAKE OWEN

You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow...
JAKE OWEN

There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father.
JAKE OWEN

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.
JAKE OWEN

Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testamen...
JAKE OWEN

I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't ...
JAKE OWEN

There's a lot that goes into being Tim McGraw or Kenny Chesney. They have great songs, their sho...
JAKE OWEN

Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it's being a celebrity or a singer. Quite fran...
JAKE OWEN

You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell t...
JAKE OWEN

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you'...
JAKE OWEN

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.
JAKE OWEN

'La Notte' is my favorite of the Antonioni pictures and my favorite work of the master cinem...
JAKE PALTROW

Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every ...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to ...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

Pilates has been around a long time but maybe was taboo in this sport. I think it's only a matte...
JAKE ARRIETA

Reject cynicism. Reject certitude. And don't be a jerk. Be a good guy.
JAKE SULLIVAN

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

There's just nothing funnier or crazier than that - doing your Broadway debut as Spider-Man in &...
JAKE EPSTEIN

I let previous instances creep up in my thought process sometimes. I think that's where things g...
JAKE ARRIETA

When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!'...
JAKE EPSTEIN

I think flexibility in general is something that needs to be reinforced, and not only baseball playe...
JAKE ARRIETA

'ACE' is one of the acronyms I've used over the years. It stands for 'Acting cures e...
JAKE ARRIETA

Bergman made countless masterpieces, but for one reason or another, 'Winter Light' stays clo...
JAKE PALTROW

It is good to kind of put your pride aside for the betterment of the ball club. We are all on board ...
JAKE ARRIETA

I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to gi...
JAKE OWEN

Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys ...
JAKE LAMOTTA

I don't know that I came across as being real competitive on 'The Bachelor,' although ma...
JAKE PAVELKA

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You ca...
JAKE ROBERTS

I just didn't lock into being in the right role in the right big movie and it going huge. I did ...
JAKE BUSEY

I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and ...
JAKE JOHNSON

We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging m...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Serie...
JAKE JOHNSON

I've had some incredible experiences with this organization. I owe a lot to this team and this o...
JAKE ARRIETA

I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and pow...
JAKE PAVELKA

My mum was a single mum on the dole.
JAKE BUGG

I'm still stupid. I still do what I'm not supposed to do. Are you serious? I'm Jake '...
JAKE ROBERTS

There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.
JAKE LACY

It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material ...
JAKE BUGG

My military experience... I can recall so many different emotions from that.
JAKE MCLAUGHLIN

I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties.
JAKE SHEARS

It's something that is very comforting. Just the process of them moving throughout their stages ...
JAKE ARRIETA

It's either feast or famine. I can't explain it.
JAKE WESTBROOK

People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.
JAKE BARTON

I would say I'm a goof ball, but not a comedian.
JAKE LACY

I woke up the next morning and told my wife, 'I must've gotten elbowed or something,' ... My ribs ar...
JAKE PEAVY

You want to be the team that is on the field when the last out is made on the winning side. That'...
JAKE ARRIETA

I've got some good movement on my sinking fastball, and I rely on that.
JAKE ARRIETA

Everybody here has the ability to throw a fastball down and away or throw a breaking ball in the dir...
JAKE ARRIETA

That's why it's so important to have that gap between your fastball and off-speed pitches: t...
JAKE ARRIETA

There is something about yourself that you don't know. Something that you will deny even exists, unt...
JAKE GREEN

We don't see the industry has reached equilibrium yet.
JAKE BRACE

There's so many things running through your mind. If you can formulate a game plan that works fo...
JAKE ARRIETA

I do tumbling and flips; there's a gym I go to for that.
JAKE SHORT

To be allowed to come back to WWE is the greatest gift that's ever been given to me. Back in the...
JAKE ROBERTS

Ang Lee is fierce in his timidity, his humbleness and his respect for everyone around him. He's frus...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

Unfortunately, the business side of the game shows its head every once in a while. But I still think...
JAKE ARRIETA

The timeline is kind of coming to an end as far as leading up to free agency.
JAKE ARRIETA

It went to No. 1 from nowhere. Literally. It was like 17th.
JAKE DEMMIN

I have received 80 out of 2,000 doses I ordered. I can't even schedule my usual recipients.
JAKE JACOBY

Big money causes me too much trouble with my ex-wives and the government. All I want is to keep busy...
JAKE LAMOTTA

I doubt that means actors are going to be stampeding to play gay cowboys or even gay roles. But they...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

If you're going to spend seven months of your life - for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4,...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

If, for some reason, you could... wanna be with me heart and soul, I'll be waiting for you at 5pm ou...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

If it does shed light on the idea that there's real love involved ... it's great. When two people lo...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

Once I get completely right mechanically and with command, maybe I only use two or three pitches to ...
JAKE ARRIETA

Weapons training, how to clear a room - all that stuff is imprinted into me.
JAKE MCLAUGHLIN

But as much as this is a soldier's reason d'etre, it is not often that you hear a soldier explicitly...
JAKE WOOD

Anytime you can beat Murray State it's memorable.
JAKE SINCLAIR

I saw (Thompson) was covering him -- when I saw that I gave him a signal that I wanted to go there. ...
JAKE DELHOMME

We don't want to walk out there and get embarrassed. This is our national pastime. When you have you...
JAKE PEAVY

I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Ent...
JAKE JOHNSON

I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carol...
JAKE EPSTEIN

I have a band called Sons of the Lawless.
JAKE BUSEY

You never know, it could happen. But I really believe with the coaches we have here and the players ...
JAKE LONG

I hypnotized myself so in my subconscious, I believed I couldn't get hurt. And I don't mean ...
JAKE LAMOTTA

I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for 'SNL' when I was ...
JAKE JOHNSON

Personally, I don't think they'll stray too far from that. But if they do, we're going to be prepare...
JAKE PLUMMER

If you see the current, you can follow it out and you won't even get your hair wet. It sucks you rig...
JAKE KIRSCHENBAUM

I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man g...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

You get to see the actors put through the wringer.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

That was so scary, the last scene Heath and I shot together. We finally get to say to each other wha...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

We made out, and they had a baby.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

But obviously, it means a hundred million things to other people. It's one big question. So, natural...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

As an actor, it's a constant question of whether I will ever get hired again ... (but) this idea is ...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

I have a friend who is in Iraq right now and is doing a lot of good over there, restoring schools an...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

I'm like, 'What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging mater...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

I had a lot of people saying to me, to my surprise, thank you for making it.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

It was really the most beautiful love story I had ever read, and I couldn't not do it.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

There have been times when I've been working with women and they just said, 'Hey, I've faked it befo...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

Usually, the action's moving so fast, you don't get the opportunity to see the psychology, really,
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

And as an actor, you can go to those places of rage and aggression and feel those feelings, and have...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

I love the idea of how these young guys are struggling with becoming something larger in the middle ...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

There's inevitably a lot of talk about things like that,
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

I thought Heath had broken my nose while we were filming that scene. Both Michelle and Ang kept insi...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

Just know, especially when they were infants and toddlers, the thought these two children depend on ...
JAKE ARRIETA

I think this team was confident going into week one. We're a team that is confident, but not a cocky...
JAKE DELHOMME

Our defense has let us down three games in a row. We don't shoot well enough to play catch-up.
JAKE GOLDY

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've don...
JAKE PAVELKA

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city whe...
JAKE JOHNSON

My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really lik...
JAKE JOHNSON

You really want to try to continue to pile up outs as often as you possibly can. Whether they get a ...
JAKE ARRIETA

As far as my mental approach, I really think it's just knowing that the past is really irrelevan...
JAKE ARRIETA

Really being able to harness my mental approach has kind of taken me to the next level, and obviousl...
JAKE ARRIETA

My dream is to leave this business on my own terms, and if it were my terms, I would love to do the ...
JAKE ROBERTS

We've been in the driver's seat for so long now, that if we lose this thing, it's not going to be be...
JAKE PEAVY

This is about the coolest thing I've ever done on a baseball field. I can't even put it into words.
JAKE PEAVY

They were pretty injured when we played them.
JAKE PLUMMER

We've had good years and lost in the first round the past two years. We got a first-round bye, so th...
JAKE PLUMMER

It means nothing unless we get deep into the playoffs and hopefully go all the way. We've had good y...
JAKE PLUMMER

One of our goals was to win the division. We won the division. We wanted to get a playoff game at ho...
JAKE PLUMMER

I don't want a kid to come in here and be hurt, ... But it's football. You can't make the club in th...
JAKE PLUMMER

We are putting ourselves in a position to do something special. This is something that we will hopef...
JAKE PLUMMER

I'm not a strong safety or free safety, but if I did play that position, that is the way I would wan...
JAKE PLUMMER

To not have them be the measuring stick, that would be downplaying how good they are, ... And we're ...
JAKE PLUMMER

That's the big question this year – people trying to figure it out. I am too. I'm just playing foo...
JAKE PLUMMER

To lose him is going to be tough. He really helped me step up in my career. We'll miss him but at th...
JAKE PLUMMER

I like watching him play. He's a little bummed out because he wanted to complete more balls, but he ...
JAKE PLUMMER

He's running around, flying around, just doing some crazy stuff and making plays. You have to see wh...
JAKE PLUMMER

If they bring some blitzes, hopefully I can make a guy miss and get out of there. They have a great ...
JAKE PLUMMER

That's the big question that people are trying to figure out. I am, too. I'm just playing football. ...
JAKE PLUMMER

Just watching film and the couple of games I've seen him this year, he's a fun player. He flies arou...
JAKE PLUMMER

I wish he would have scored, just for his sake.
JAKE PLUMMER

It's big for this organization and for everybody on this team. Hopefully we can continue on and get ...
JAKE PLUMMER

We had a kicker cause a fumble; you don't see that very often. Any time that happens, things are goi...
JAKE PLUMMER

If you are surprised at the way we played today then you have to be pretty clueless as far as what k...
JAKE PLUMMER

I don't even care what our record was; we're ready for the playoffs. We started slowly, but we moved...
JAKE PLUMMER

They have quality all around, so nothing really changes. We are going to game plan for whether those...
JAKE PLUMMER

With their drive and desire to do something in history that's never been done, we know it's going to...
JAKE PLUMMER

If the opportunity arises, that is something that I feel comfortable doing, but, hopefully, there wo...
JAKE PLUMMER

You never know with him. He?s a great coach - very smart, very good at game planning - and we know t...
JAKE PLUMMER

We missed a couple plays but we made enough to move the ball and get some points on the board. It wa...
JAKE PLUMMER

It's tough. They were getting after it and when they got a lead, we get one dimensional.
JAKE PLUMMER

I had Novocain from my waist up tonight. Nothing really felt good tonight. Tonight was one of those ...
JAKE PEAVY

I think it is possible to be friends even if you're competing. You know, there's so many guy...
JAKE ABEL

A lot of guys are starting to get away from trying to jerk these heavy weights and throw all these h...
JAKE ARRIETA

It's going to come down to executing, trying to keep guys off balance and disrupting timing. Tha...
JAKE ARRIETA

With a runner at second base with nobody out, you're trying to punch somebody out. You understan...
JAKE ARRIETA

They represent everybody. All the greats. Bill Cosby - one of my heroes. Now me? This is so incredible. I can't believe it! I'm so thankful.

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They represent everybody. All the greats. Bill Cosby - one of my heroes. Now me? This is so incredible. I can't believe it! I'm so thankful.

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