The quotations of

Charles Mingus

American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader

1922–1979

2 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.
Statement to Nat Hentoff , as quoted in California Rock, California Sound: The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California (1979) by Anthony Fawcett, p. 56
- Change
- Music
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
Statement in Mainliner (July 1977), as quoted in Creativity and the writing process (1982) by Olivia Bertagnolli, p. 182
- Art

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