Charles Mingus People Quotations

I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.

It (jazz) isn't like it used to be. The guys aren't together. They're all separated. Individuals now. Bird was a symbol. It was a clique, a clique of people. Who all believed in one thing: gettin' high. And playin'.

I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.