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

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Everything I do is Mingus.

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

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

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

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

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?

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

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

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

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

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

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

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

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