Charles Mingus Quotes
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I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.
— Charles Mingus
I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.
— Charles Mingus
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
My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.
— Charles Mingus
In baseball, you're always moving people around.
— Joe Torre
Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.
— Charles Mingus
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
Jazz music is a language of the emotions.
— Charles Mingus
I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.
— Charles Mingus
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
Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.
— Charles Mingus
If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.
— Robert Glasper
Everything I do is Mingus.
— Charles Mingus
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creative. — Charles Mingus
Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.
— Charles Mingus
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
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
Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?
— Charles Mingus
Jazz is the language of the emotions.
— Charles Mingus
Making the complicated simple is true creativity.
— Charles Mingus
They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.
— Charles Mingus
Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.
— Charles Mingus
It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.
— Kurt Loder
The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.
— Ridley Scott
In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.
— Charles Mingus
