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Charles Mingus Quotes

I’m trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it’s difficult is because I’m changing all the time Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Charlie Parker Picture Quote #1

I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn’t only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those people are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker, who is the greatest genius of all to me because he changed the whole era around Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Just because I’m playing Jazz I don’t forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves Picture Quote #1

My music is evidence of my souls will to live Picture Quote #1

Jazz music is a language of the emotions Picture Quote #1

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Making the complicated simple is true creativity Picture Quote #1

They’re singing your praises while stealing your phrases Picture Quote #1

Let my children have music! Let them hear live music Picture Quote #1

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple Picture Quote #1

Jazz is the language of the emotions Picture Quote #1

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head Picture Quote #1

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Bach is how buildings got taller. It’s how we got to the moon Picture Quote #1

Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise. My children! You do what you want with your own! Picture Quote #1

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity Picture Quote #1

I’m trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it’s difficult is because I’m changing all the time Picture Quote #1

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 therefore has more to say Picture Quote #1

I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I’ve grown up and I like to do things other than just swing. But blues can do more than just swing Picture Quote #1

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That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I’m playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young person, as you get older and go flat, you’ll be in tune. In other words, it’s never thought good to be flat. It means you can’t get to the tone Picture Quote #1

In my music, I’m trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it’s difficult is because I’m changing all the time Picture Quote #1

Ladies and gentlemen, please don’t associate me with any of this. This is not jazz. These are sick people Picture Quote #1

If someone has been escaping reality, I don’t expect him to dig my music Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

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I’m trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it’s difficult is because I’m changing all the time. (Charles Mingus Quotes) 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. (Charles Mingus Quotes) 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. (Charles Mingus Quotes) 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. (Charles Mingus Quotes) 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 Charlie Parker (Charles Mingus Quotes) I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn’t only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those people are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker, who is the greatest genius of all to me because he changed the whole era around (Charles Mingus Quotes) 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 (Charles Mingus Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Charles Mingus Quotes) If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves (Charles Mingus Quotes) My music is evidence of my souls will to live (Charles Mingus Quotes) Jazz music is a language of the emotions (Charles Mingus Quotes) Making the complicated simple is true creativity (Charles Mingus Quotes) They’re singing your praises while stealing your phrases (Charles Mingus Quotes) Let my children have music! Let them hear live music (Charles Mingus Quotes) Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple (Charles Mingus Quotes) Jazz is the language of the emotions (Charles Mingus Quotes) I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head (Charles Mingus Quotes) Bach is how buildings got taller. It’s how we got to the moon (Charles Mingus Quotes) Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise. My children! You do what you want with your own! (Charles Mingus Quotes) Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity (Charles Mingus Quotes) I’m trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it’s difficult is because I’m changing all the time (Charles Mingus Quotes) 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 therefore has more to say (Charles Mingus Quotes) I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I’ve grown up and I like to do things other than just swing. But blues can do more than just swing (Charles Mingus Quotes) That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I’m playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young person, as you get older and go flat, you’ll be in tune. In other words, it’s never thought good to be flat. It means you can’t get to the tone (Charles Mingus Quotes) In my music, I’m trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it’s difficult is because I’m changing all the time (Charles Mingus Quotes) Ladies and gentlemen, please don’t associate me with any of this. This is not jazz. These are sick people (Charles Mingus Quotes) If someone has been escaping reality, I don’t expect him to dig my music (Charles Mingus Quotes) 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 (Charles Mingus Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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