Charles Mingus Quotes & Sayings
6 most famous Charles Mingus quotes and sayings (musician).
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”
“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, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”
“I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to pass for nothing but black and not too light enough to be called white.”
“My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.”
“I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.”
“In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.”
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