Art Quote by Yusef Lateef

Your experience of life is to a large part distilled into your performing. As you grow older, you concentrate on aspects of music that…

— Julian Bream

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

— Glen Campbell

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

— Ken Hill

Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.

— Paulo Coelho

Like most musicians, Im good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to…

— Tony Levin

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as…

— Tony Williams

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is no yesterday…

— Charlie Haden

I don't like to do things the same way every time. You always want to be evolving as a composer, and if your creative…

— Christopher Tin

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read…

— Gordon Getty

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening…

— Charles de Lint

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

— Rosanne Cash