I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.

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.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

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.

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

My music is evidence of my souls will to live.

If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

Besides, love is only a feeling.

There is no need to lose weight for some one because only those ask you to lose some weight who can not afford your likeings

One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.