Charles Mingus > Quotes

“
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative.”
― Charles mingus

“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

“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird-- that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace--making the complicated simple, awesomely simple--that's creativity.”
― Charles Mingus

“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.”
― Charles Mingus

“Yeah, I pledge allegiance, to the United States of America... I pledge an allegiance to see that someday they will live up to their promises, to the victims that they call citizens...”
― Charles Mingus

“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

“Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.”
― Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus - More Than a Fake Book

“My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.”
― Charles Mingus

“So he must use what time he has creating now for the future and utilize the past only to help the future, not as a razor strop for guilts and fears that inhibit his very being. Or like it said at the end of a labor song I liked a lot when I was a kid: what I mean is, take it easy, but take it.”
― Charles Mingus, Beneath the Underdog

“I think I have an extremely aggravated case of paranoia”
― Charles Mingus

“Telling the Parkses your father was an African chieftan has the same sound to me as the white man telling me I'm a nigger.”
― Charles Mingus, Beneath the Underdog

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
― Charles Mingus