What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music? Had I been born in a different country or had I been born white, I am sure I would have expressed my ideas long ago. Maybe they wouldn't have been as good because when people are born free — I can't imagine it, but I've got a feeling that if it's so easy for you — the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say.


As quoted in Setting the Tempo : Fifty Years of Great Jazz Liner Notes (1996) by Tom Piazza. p. 339

Charles Mingus Quotes

What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music? Had ...

What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music? Had ...

What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music? Had ...

What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music? Had ...