In My Music, I'm Trying To Play

Whatever Coast He's On, A Man Should Be Himself. I Don't Write In Any Particular Idiom, I Write Charles Mingus.

That Sound In Tune To You?.. Sounds Sharp To Me. Sounds Like I'm Playing Sharp All The Time. My Singing Teacher Told Us You Should Do That. Maybe I Got It From Her. She Said Singers When They Grow Old Have A Tendency To Go Flat. So If You Sing Sharp As A Young Person, As You Get Older And Go Flat, You'll Be In Tune. In Other Words, It's Never Thought Good To Be Flat. It Means You Can't Get To The Tone.

Anybody Can Make The Simple Complecated. Creativity Is Making The Complecated Simple.

I Was Always Doing Revolutionary Things, Things That Would Alert People, So They Would Stop Being So Subservient.

Since The White Man Says He Came From The Evolution Of Animals, Well, Maybe The Black Man Didn't. The White Man Has Made So Many Errors In The Handling Of People That Maybe He Did Come From A Gorilla Or A Fish And Crawl Up On The Sand And Then Into The Trees. Of Course, Evolution Doesn't Take God Into Consideration. I Don't Think People Learned To Do All The Things They Do Through Evolution.