"Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book â€˜Art as Experience,â€™ you canâ€™t separate experience from the work of art. So, if I write for the symphony today, youâ€™re listening to everything thatâ€™s happened to me since I was 18 years old."

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Source : Yusef Lateef, Herb Boyd (2006). “The Gentle Giant: The Autobiography of Yusef Lateef”, p.176, morton books, inc

Yusef Lateef

#Art Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.”
“To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.”
“Maybe some people thought I was 'safe' so they didn't really bothered to vote for me at all.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'”
“There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.”
“Divinity reveals herself in all things... everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.”

Source : "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.
“I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.”
“If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.”

Source : "Orations and addresses".

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