"The ukulele is the instrument of peace,"

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Source : "BYT Interviews: Jake Shimabukuro". Interview with Jade Salazar, brightestyoungthings.com. April 23, 2013.

Jake Shimabukuro

#Ukulele Quotes #Instruments Quotes

“Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You don't realize at first when you listen to Armstrong's records how great this man was and how hard that Hot Five music was to play. After the experience of reading and playing those parts, I have an even greater respect for Louis Armstrong than before”
“It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips â€“ biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finneganâ€™s Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.)”
“The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.”
“Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.”
“I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.”
“A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?”
“You saved me life, she tried to tell him. Not forever, not for good. Probably just temporarily. But you saved my life, and now I'm yours. The me that's me right now is yours. Always.”

Source : Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.279, St. Martin's Griffin
“I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels.”

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