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.

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'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.

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

They were doers and thinkers and lovers and seekers and givers, but dreamers, most dangerously of all.

Outside it was dark, but not as dark as it was inside of me.

love is the need of all...but, love needs all...!

Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on physicists to prove there must be a law forbidding time travel.

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

I have an amazing team, I have amazing producers, I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

Brabling Curres never want torne eares.

You can learn a lot of things from being in movies.

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.