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Jake Shimabukuro

"Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney."

Source : "Jake Shimabukuro On His Ukulele Heroes, ‘Rolling In The Deep,’ And His Dream Song To Cover". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.

Jake Shimabukuro

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“We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.”
“On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.”

Source : "'Family Circus' Creator Bil Keane Dies", www.foxnews.com. November 9, 2011.
“I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.”
“If you go and watch a Coldplay show, Chris Martin used to be a little timid onstage, but now the success that the band has had really gives him a lot of confidence to really own it. Also, I really admire the way that Ben Gibbard sings live, he just stays on pitch. That is something that I try to do. I don't have the greatest voice in the world, so I just try to think real hard while I'm singing and just do a good job.”
“The fact that you have a policy of such consequence directly affecting millions of people and you have a legal question of great consequence about the scope of the president's authority to act in implementing the immigration laws in this way and you have a one-line decision from the court affirming by an equally-divided court, it's an inevitable consequence of where we are.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
“I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.”
“I have no clue what a 'hottie' is. To think of myself in those terms is absurd.”
“I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.”

"Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney."

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