I Always Wanted To Be

I Never Heard My Music Played The Way I Heard It In My Head.

I Am Charles Mingus, Half Black Man, Not Even White Enough To Pass For Nothing But Black. I Am Charles Mingus, A Famed Jazzman, But Not Famed Enough To Make A Living In This Society.

Most Customers, By The Time The Musicians Reach The Second Set, Are To Some Extent Inebriated. They Don't Care What You Play Anyway.

If Charlie Parker Were A Gunslinger, There'd Be A Whole Lot Of Dead Copycats

Whatever Coast He's On, A Man Should Be Himself. I Don't Write In Any Particular Idiom, I Write Charles Mingus.