Top 22 Yusef Lateef Quotes

#1. I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.

Wyndham Lewis

#2. Failure brings success to those who don't quit.

Farshad Asl

#3. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. The secret of real prosperity in the church is to teach God's people principles of economic empowerment

Sunday Adelaja

#5. If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give
Me up to the Devil this very minute.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#6. Then her mind had wandered into a place she could not follow, taking with it all the people she knew, their names and connections, whether they still lived or whether they'd died. But her body lingered, shed of an inner being, empty as a cicada husk.

Ron Rash

#7. The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#8. 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

#9. My music is jazz.

Yusef Lateef

#10. Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou went by.

George Linley

#11. 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

#12. Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

Charles Spurgeon

#13. When love is your power, then you will not have anything to fear.

Debasish Mridha

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Suddenly, I see the other side of choice. Of all of us having it. Sometimes we will choose wrong.

Ally Condie

#17. I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

John Roberts

#18. Loveless moments are to be avoided.

Yusef Lateef

#19. The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

Ajay Naidu

#20. I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.

Daniel Radcliffe

#21. Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.

Ewan McGregor

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

Yusef Lateef

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