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Jazz Quotes by Charles Mingus
- Jazz is the language of the emotions.
- If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.
- I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those…
- Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?
- Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.
- Everything I do is Mingus.
- I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but…
- Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker's next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they…
- It (jazz) isn't like it used to be. The guys aren't together. They're all separated. Individuals now. Bird was a symbol. It was a clique,…
- Jazz music is a language of the emotions.
- Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz.
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