Yusef Lateef's Quotes

When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.

My music is jazz.

Movie making is the slowest business on earth next to fossil manufacture.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.