Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.
Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker's next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
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.
I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.
Damien Vesper Didn't plan on killing anyone today
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
If I'm a character, it's a biographical movie. My character is as close to me as possible. As close to being myself as possible. So my character, J. Cole, is very close to Jermaine Cole.
If you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.