Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.
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?
Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.
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