“In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.”

— Charles Mingus

Statement to Nat Hentoff, as quoted in California Rock, California Sound : The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California (1979) by Anthony Fawcett, p. 56; also in “Jazz : Beyond Time and Nations” in The Nat Hentoff Reader (2001), Part 2 : The Passion of Creation, p. 99

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American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader 1922–1979

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