I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.

- 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

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

My music is evidence of my souls will to live.

- Charles Mingus

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

- Charles Mingus

If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves.

- Charles Mingus

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

- 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 …

- Charles Mingus

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

- Charles Mingus