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Charles Mingus on Music

1922–1979 United States

← All quotes by Charles Mingus

5 quotes

What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?

Setting the Tempo : Fifty Years of Great Jazz Liner Notes (1996)

In my music, 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 alive and it's about the living and the dead, about good and evil. It's angry, yet it's real because it knows it's angry.

An Open Letter To Miles Davis (1955)

I think my own way. I don't think like you and my music isn't meant just for the patting of feet and going down backs.

An Open Letter To Miles Davis (1955)

Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise. My children! You do what you want with your own!

What Is A Jazz Composer? (1971)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Mingus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.