Charles Mingus Quotes

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Charles Mingus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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I'm happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I'm happy; I'm glad about that. But I'm also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.

Jens Voigt

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I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing - that's what I'm trying to say.

Jens Lekman

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In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

Robert Herrick

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It's almost better that Twitter limits me to 140 characters. There's only so much trouble I can get in.

Anna Kendrick

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I was wondering if I could love another child as much as I love my son. And what I realized, within hours of my daughter being born, not only do I love her just as much if not more.

Michael Ealy

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I try to start drinking water as soon as my feet hit the floor in the morning.

Mary Kay Andrews

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To me, the more interesting villains are the ones you can, in some sense, relate to or sympathize with at times. Maybe you sympathize with them one moment; the next moment, they do something truly atrocious, and you feel bad you ever sympathized with them in the first place.

Jason Aaron

MomentMeFeelInterestingYouBad

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

Johnny Rivers

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Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

David Whyte

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I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.

Bob Dole

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Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

Rick Pitino

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