"External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument."

-- Yusef Lateef

#Music Quotes #Instruments Quotes

“You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others....”

Source : Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.”
“To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.”
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.”
“I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.”
“I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.”
“Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.”
“My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.”

Source : Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.12, Michael O'Mara Books

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