Everything I Do Is Mingus.

Thelonius Monk Went Over To Bird And Bud Powell And Said, 'i Told You Guys To Act Crazy, But I Didn't Tell You To Fall In Love With The Act. You're Really Crazy Now.'

Bach Is How Buildings Got Taller. It's How We Got To The Moon.

Making The Simple Complicated Is Commonplace.

I, Myself, Came To Enjoy The Players Who Didn't Only Just Swing But Who Invented New Rhythmic Patterns, Along With New Melodic Concepts. And Those People Are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie And Charles Parker, Who Is The Greatest Genius Of All To Me Because He Changed The Whole Era Around.

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.