Charles Mingus Quotes

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated 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

CreativitySimpleComplicatedMaking

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

John Gould

EndYouNumbBenefitOtherLecture

A governing ethos of the Internet has been that whatever flows through it - information, ideas - is up for grabs.

Jenna Wortham

IdeasInternetInformationWhatever

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

Matthew Ashford

CharacterFaceDoingMirrorsVery

Compunet was fantastic. You could upload these little demos of what you'd been working on, and it was a really nice social scene - years before the Internet.

Jeff Minter

InternetYouNiceYearsLittleBeen

I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve.

Tommy Lee Jones

WorkPeopleNothingPursueServe

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

PastPeopleLegacyThinkBlindWave

I think the place we love the most is the Parc des Buttes Chaumont. It's in the 19th arrondissement. It's where I would go jogging and my wife, Rachel, and I would go for walks. It's appreciated by Parisians but it's not really known to tourists.

Rosecrans Baldwin

LoveWifeThinkPlaceGoWhere

When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

Michael Shannon

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This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'

Juan Felipe Herrera

DanceSometimesFleetingEmotional

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

Don Simpson

HistoryArtMoneyObligationOur

I don't always feel sexy even though I have to look it, and I've just learned to go into on-and-off mode. I'm a mom at home, and then I go into work, and it's nice to have that contrast. I see a different person in the mirror when I'm at work with hair and makeup than when I'm home.

Doutzen Kroes

WorkHomeMirrorMomHairMakeup

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