I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.
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.
If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves. - Charles Mingus
If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves.
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 …
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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