Charles Mingus Quotes

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 22, 1922 - January 5, 1979

Topics

CreativitySimpleBeing Different

By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events in the book were happening, I knew I'd probably write about them one day. I didn't want to. I'd studied fiction, and I was committed to establishing myself as a fiction writer first.

Jesmyn Ward

TimeMyselfDayMenWritingBook

Pictures often sit inside of pictures, but the edges of pictures and objects are rarely subjected to serious challenge; we are presented with distinct, whole pictures and objects.

Jessica Stockholder

ChallengePicturesSeriousInside

My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.

Andrew Sean Greer

MePlaceMy OwnFirstOwnMade

To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.

Stephen Rodrick

WinEgoYouBuildEmpireMust

I don't envy guards. They're quick little monkeys, those guys.

Steven Adams

EnvyQuickLittleMonkeysGuards

It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was a time when the church was so connected to the world.

Rob Sheffield

TimeBestWorldGrowChurchBubble

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Lou Holtz

JobTeamGoalUnitedKeepCommon

American fundamentalist thought connected strongly to reactionary political ideology as nervous Christians pushed back against liberal reforms on many fronts.

Jay Parini

ThoughtAmericanPoliticalBackMany

We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.

David Suzuki

FutureFreeChooseRealReinvent

In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

Colson Whitehead

CollegeShortThreeStoriesMaybe

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

Audrey Hepburn

MorningAloneMondayHappyNight

The idea that you can dress up in some kind of a fake Indian outfit and get on stage is somehow acceptable in this country. That has to do with the fact that you have the Redskins, the Braves, you have people who dress up like Indians, people dress up like Indians on Halloween. That is acceptable.

Winona LaDuke

DressPeopleFakeYouOutfitKind

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