Jake Shimabukuro Quotes

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.

I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much inspiration.

The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

I play the ukulele. Is that quirky?

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.

I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.

The trumpet is forceful.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

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

I do a mean mouth trumpet.

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.

The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele.

I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, 'What do you want to play?' I said the drums, and my mother said, 'No, you don't. You don't want to play the drums.' So I said, 'Maybe the trumpet would be cool.' And my mother said, 'I don't think so.' And then the clarinet was handed to me.

I started playing the ukulele in the year 2000. That sounds so futuristic saying it like that. The year 2000.

When I was a teenager, my mom got me a really nice baritone ukulele.

I have a collection of ukuleles. I meant to graduate to the guitar, but I never did.

The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.

The lute I use has 10 courses and 19 strings, which is quite a lot of strings and a quite different fingerboard width from a classical guitar. I use a combination of flesh and nail when plucking the strings.

French horn can be very epic, and at the same time, very dark and moving.

My voice is not very dynamic.

The piano has a huge dynamic range that almost no other instruments have. It can play very low, and it can play very high.

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.