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.

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.

I measure my friends not by being there with me when everything is going well, but embracing me when I'm criticized and when I endure tough times.

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

Just showing that what I did at the combine wasn't a fluke.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

I think Darth Maul has been on a vicious cycle, he's been on a merry go round. In some way he's begging for Obi-Wan Kenobi to take him off that ride.