Everything I do is Mingus.

Everything I do is Mingus.

Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

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.

I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I've grown up and I like to do things other than just swing. But blues can do more than just swing.

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

I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.