"You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language."

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Source : "Jake Shimabukuro: Ukulele Virtuoso". "The Next List" with Fredericka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. January 15, 2012.

Jake Shimabukuro

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“Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.”
“When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.”

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“Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.”
“I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.”
“People are funny -- they are able to project personality onto anything. I remember as a kid I spent a $ 5 bill once and felt so bad because the other $ 5 bill was now going to be lonely without all the other bills I had in my wallet, you just invest these dead things with life and that is our tendency as people. So animation takes advantage of that, grabs on to it, and runs with it.”
“I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout provide a perspective from which one can read the image; otherwise we would do what Dadaists did when they put words in a little bag and then took them out at random in order to compose a poem.”
“It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.”
“As an improviser you need to experience the moment- and that includes everything in the moment. Observe the people around you-the bandleader, the bartender-what they wear, how they deal with people, the simple continuity of their presence. As you do that you'll see how you affect them , and you'll play and act accordingly. You need to study the reality of the moment, and that is very rarely about studying modes and intervals.”

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