"I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived."

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Source : "What Is A Jazz Composer?". Charles Mingus' liner notes for "Let My Children Hear Music", album composed by Charles Mingus, January/February 1972.

Charles Mingus

#Men Quotes #Stupidity Quotes #Musical Quotes

“A lot of people would enter restricted sites just to say they can, and then log out. Today, everything related to hacking seems to be for monetary gain.”
“To me, being an actor is the best job in the land, next to being a mother and having a family and a husband. I just think it's the realization of, "Hey, this is the greatest situation in the world."”
“Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.”
“Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.”
“Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “PENELOPE’S PROGRESS – The Complete Series: Penelope's English Experiences, Penelope's Experiences in Scotland, Penelope's Irish Experiences & Penelope's Postscripts: Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton”, p.185, e-artnow
“It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.”
“I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.”

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