I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.
The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
And no kinds of love are better than others
I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
I like mindless disco... they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what's wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.
I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.
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.