Charles Mingus Quotes
Top 24 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Charles Mingus on Wise Famous Quotes.
Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz.
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.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creative.
I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.
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.
Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.