Yusef Lateef Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.”
-- Yusef Lateef

#Music #Instruments
“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.”
-- Yusef Lateef

#Believe #Rain #Player
“The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.”
-- Yusef Lateef

#Being Yourself #Voice #Challenges
“Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book â€˜Art as Experience,â€™ you canâ€™t separate experience from the work of art. So, if I write for the symphony today, youâ€™re listening to everything thatâ€™s happened to me since I was 18 years old.”
-- Yusef Lateef

#Art #Book #Writing
“Loveless moments are to be avoided.”
-- Yusef Lateef

#Moments #Loveless
“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.”
-- Yusef Lateef

#Moving #Order #Sight

Top 8 Quotes By Yusef Lateef A Z Quotes

Top 8 Quotes By Yusef Lateef A Z Quotes

You may also like:

Ahmad Jamal
Jazz Pianist
Alice Coltrane
Jazz Pianist
Archie Shepp
Musical Artist
Art Blakey
Jazz Drummer
Barry Harris
Jazz Pianist
Cannonball Adderley
Saxophonist
Charles Mingus
Bassist
Clark Terry
Trumpeter
Curtis Fuller
Trombonist
Dizzy Gillespie
Bandleader
Donald Byrd
Jazz trumpeter
Eric Dolphy
Saxophonist
Freddie Hubbard
Trumpeter
Joe Zawinul
Keyboardist
John Coltrane
Saxophonist
Miles Davis
Musician
Pharoah Sanders
Saxophonist
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Multi-instrumentalist
Thelonious Monk
Pianist
Art Farmer
Jazz trumpeter