Yusef Lateef quotes
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“External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.”
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“Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music. The pygmies' music of the rain forest is very rich music. So the knowledge is out there. And I also believe one should seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. With that kind of inquisitiveness, one discovers things that were unknown before.”
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“The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.”
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“Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you can’t separate experience from the work of art. So, if I write for the symphony today, you’re listening to everything that’s happened to me since I was 18 years old.”
-- Yusef LateefSource : Yusef Lateef, Herb Boyd (2006). “The Gentle Giant: The Autobiography of Yusef Lateef”, p.176, morton books, inc
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“When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.”
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“I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early Twenties. If you take a look at some of the old pictures of Chick Webb, then you will see the flute right there on the bandstand among the woodwinds.”
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“I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was very motivating. There were a lot of local people who inspired me like Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Roy Brooks, Donald Byrd, etc.”
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Source : What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2
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Source : "Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.
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“The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.”
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