Yusef Lateef Quotes

My music is jazz.

Yusef Lateef

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 9, 1920 - December 23, 2013

Topics

MusicJazz

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

Joe Namath

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Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.

Andre Dubus III

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It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

Amanda Seyfried

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I went from being able to walk down the street and be ignored to having men whistle at me. I was an insecure young girl, and it felt good to have attention, even though it was inappropriate.

Amanda de Cadenet

GoodGirlWalkMenMeAttention

I think anything we do outside of Gym Class Heroes still falls under the Gym Class Heroes umbrella. There's really no method to the madness. With Gym Class, it's more of a democratic process, and when I'm working on solo stuff, it's just me, either working with producers or sitting in a room by myself. They balance and complement each other.

Travie McCoy

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I'd love to collaborate with a writer, but I'm such a control freak, it might be difficult.

Mini Grey

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Death is not my best subject.

Judd Nelson

BestDeathSubject

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Josh Billings

GrowthLiveGodFruitEnoughBad

I do not like getting hit. I can take a hit, but I don't want to damage my brain if I don't have to.

Demetrious Johnson

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Aristotle

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I feel at home wherever I am, to be honest.

Anne-Marie

HomeI AmFeelHonestWhereverAm

I really learned that, when I got into television, I really learned the power, how deeply it affects people to see themselves on television, to see something that they can relate to, that they feel is like them in some way; people feel validated. Its not a little thing. It really means a lot to people. It actually can change people.

Winnie Holzman

ChangePowerPeopleFeelTelevision

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