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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

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing. — Tony Curtis

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

Like a force of nature
Love can fade with the stars at dawn. — Neil Peart

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

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

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