Bette Midler Quotes

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

I think music is to have fun. It's for people to have a good time with.

I love music, and playing ukulele and singing makes me really happy.

I have an all-black Mahalo ukulele - it's like my baby. It has brought me so much peace and comfort.

I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.

I sing just for fun.

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

My pure love is playing music.

There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.

I'm always happy with a guitar in my hand.

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

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

I love singin' in the car, it just makes me feel good.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

Singing gives me a lot of energy.

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.

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.

I play the ukulele. Is that quirky?

Bill Gates recently picked up the ukulele. And Warren Buffett is a huge ukulele fan. I even got to strum a few chords with Francis Ford Coppola. It blows my mind that these people, who have everything in the world they could want, have picked up the ukulele and found a little bit of joy.

You can think best when you're happiest.