Top 22 Yusef Lateef Quotes
#1. Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.
Charles Spurgeon
#2. External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.
Yusef Lateef
#3. 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
#4. I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.
Daniel Radcliffe
#5. 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
#7. 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
#8. Suddenly, I see the other side of choice. Of all of us having it. Sometimes we will choose wrong.
Ally Condie
#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. When love is your power, then you will not have anything to fear.
Debasish Mridha
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#20. The secret of real prosperity in the church is to teach God's people principles of economic empowerment
Sunday Adelaja
#21. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. Failure brings success to those who don't quit.
Farshad Asl
