"I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time."

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Source : Charles Mingus' statement to Nat Hentoff as quoted in Anthony Fawcett "California Rock, California Sound: The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California" (p. 56), 1979, and in "Jazz: Beyond Time and Nations" in Nat Hentoff "The Nat Hentoff Reader" (p. 99), October 17, 2001.

Charles Mingus

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“I think men were destined to become homemakers. After all, who ever heard of "Ms. Clean" or the "Woman from Glad"?”
“I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.”
“I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet”

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“I’m interested in natural growth patterns, and the beautiful forms that only nature creates. How that flows through me and how that comes out is what I’m trying to understand.”
“Nothing beats performing live. For me, there's nothing better.”

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“Anyone who knows the marketing world knows that ideas come and go, and people latch onto things and think of them as a kind of solution....”
“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”
“Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.”

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