Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.

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

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.