All Charles Mingus Quotes
- What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play… Composer
- I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description… Admire
- Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple,… Anybody
- Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. Awesomely
- Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall… Act
- I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer. Always Wanted
- Jazz music is a language of the emotions. Emotion
- They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases. Music
- Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Children
- I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time. All
- Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz. Feel
- I've got a feeling that, if it's so easy for you, the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a… Easy
- I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to pass for nothing but black and not too light… Black