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Charles Mingus quotes: I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

Charles Mingus quotes: I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

Charles Mingus quotes: Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz.

Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz.

Charles Mingus quotes: My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.

My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.

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 a piece of his music?

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 a piece of his music?

Charles Mingus quotes: Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

Charles Mingus quotes: Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Charles Mingus quotes: Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creative.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creative.

Charles Mingus quotes: Everything I do is Mingus.

Everything I do is Mingus.

Charles Mingus quotes: Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.

Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.

Charles Mingus quotes: Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

Charles Mingus quotes: I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.

I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.

Charles Mingus quotes: Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

Charles Mingus quotes: 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 do now?

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 do now?

Charles Mingus quotes: I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.

I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.

Charles Mingus quotes: Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

Charles Mingus quotes: Jazz is the language of the emotions.

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

Charles Mingus quotes: Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Charles Mingus quotes: They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

Charles Mingus quotes: If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

Charles Mingus quotes: Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

Charles Mingus quotes: In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

Charles Mingus quotes: If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

Charles Mingus quotes: Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.