Charles Mingus Quotes About Music
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Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.
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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.
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I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.
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Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.
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Jazz music is a language of the emotions.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
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Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'
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They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.
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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.
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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.
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If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.
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