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

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.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

I enjoyed working with everyone on the cast [of the Ghost Team]. We knew we were making a pretty weird movie.

You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.

Clarity precedes mastery and the more clear you can get on what you want to create in life, the more focused you will be in your daily behaviors.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.