Jazz Quote by Yusef Lateef Download Open image “My music is jazz.” — Yusef Lateef ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jazz Music
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
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… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
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'… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument. — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was very motivating.… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
Growing up in Iceland, it was very beautiful, very safe, but quite isolated. There was something about jazz music that had a way of… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I… — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
It's bluesy, rocky jazz. I call it soul music, but it's not James Brown soul music. It comes from my soul. It comes from… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
