Charles Mingus Thoughts
Best 20+ Charles Mingus Messages, Quotes, and Images
Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace.
Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.
Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker's next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?
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.
In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.
I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.
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There's only five real people in Hollywood. Everyone else is Mel Blanc.
Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
If you're not sure what to wear, if you don't know how everyone else is going to be, then just be at your most beautiful.
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.