Making The Complicated Simple Is True Creativity.

I Am Charles Mingus, Half Black Man, Not Even White Enough To Pass For Nothing But Black. I Am Charles Mingus, A Famed Jazzman, But Not Famed Enough To Make A Living In This Society.

Whatever Coast He's On, A Man Should Be Himself. I Don't Write In Any Particular Idiom, I Write Charles Mingus.

Anybody Can Make The Simple Complecated. Creativity Is Making The Complecated Simple.

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.

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?