My Music Is Evidence Of My Souls

Let My Children Have Music! Let Them Hear Live Music.

If Someone Has Been Escaping Reality, I Don't Expect Him To Dig My Music.

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 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.

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.