I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesome… - Charles Mingus
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesome…
- Charles Mingus
I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient. - Charles Mingus
I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.
I've got a feeling that if it's so easy for you - the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and … - Charles Mingus
I've got a feeling that if it's so easy for you - the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and …
If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves. - Charles Mingus
If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves.
I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head. - Charles Mingus
I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.
Life has many changes. Tomorrow it may rain, and it's supposed to be sunshine, 'cause it's summertime. But God's got a funny soul, he plays like Char… - Charles Mingus
Life has many changes. Tomorrow it may rain, and it's supposed to be sunshine, 'cause it's summertime. But God's got a funny soul, he plays like Char…
In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. - Charles Mingus
In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.
My music is evidence of my souls will to live. - Charles Mingus
My music is evidence of my souls will to live.
Making the complicated simple is true creativity. - Charles Mingus
Making the complicated simple is true creativity.
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