Jake Shimabukuro Quotes

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.

I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get motivated. Watching people sing along and put their hands in the air is a very powerful thing. I'm 63, but I don't feel it. I feel like I'm in my 40s. I enjoy life.

Music is the most amount of joy or good I can do in the world.

The sense of waking up in the morning and knowing that there is music ahead of me in the day is such an incredible feeling. The more I engage with music the more days I wake up and know that that's what's going to be there, and the things that come with music.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

Music brings life to my soul.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.

I love music, and I love acting, so if I can just live and be able to do those two things, I can be happy, you know?

When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a full garden in bloom; you're like, 'Oh, I just want to smell the flowers and play among the flowers all day.' That's what I'm doing. I'm playing among the flowers.

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.

Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

I can't imagine life without singing.

I just keep on playing what I love.