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Music Quotes by Charles Mingus
- I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach,…
- 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…
- I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.
- 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…
- Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
- 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…
- I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.
- Jazz music is a language of the emotions.
- They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.
- Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.
- I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.
- 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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