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.
Everything I do is Mingus.
Making the complicated simple is true creativity.
I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.
Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.
Jazz is the language of the emotions.