Lateef Quotes

#1. The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.'

Ridley Scott

#2. External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.

Yusef Lateef

#3. No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.

Harry Browne

#4. To be less dumb is to see the danger in believing in forces that do not exist and trusting them when you would do better to trust yourself.

David McRaney

#5. I don't throw money away. First class tickets are very expensive. Why should I fly first class if I can fly business, which is the same thing? I would only fly first class if the ticket included access to some sort of special compartment that could save me if there was any crash.

Silvio Santos

#6. Loveless moments are to be avoided.

Yusef Lateef

#7. I loved her totally, and while I loved her, the world was love. Once she was gone, the world seemed to prove nothing more than ruins and the smoldering dreams of monsters.

Paul Harding

#8. Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.

Douglas Rushkoff

#9. 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

#10. 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.

Yusef Lateef

#11. Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

Fran Lebowitz

#12. You don't want your personality to eclipse your work because no one would be interested in seeing your work anymore.

Amy Landecker

#13. Always keep smiling; Someone might be needing it more than you do.

Arti Honrao

#14. 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.

Yusef Lateef

#15. There's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead. I don't feel like a satan but I guess I am ... keep on rockin' the free world.

Neil Young

#16. I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.

Victoria Abril

#17. Well, more or less, you just got struck by lightning."
"Wait, what?" My brain stopped processing for a prolonged moment unable to wrap around that one. How the hell had that happened? "So basically I was filled with 1.21 jiggawatts?
Can I travel through time now?

Elizabeth Sharp

#18. My music is jazz.

Yusef Lateef

#19. 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

#20. I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece.

Tobe Hooper

#21. The trouble with most problem-solving books for parents is that they start with the idea that the child has a problem. Then they try to tell us how to fix the child, or else, after blaming the parent, they suggest how we can fix ourselves.

Polly Berrien Berends