Apt Mother’s Day song title: All the Things You Could Be by Now if Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother
—Charles Mingus
Topics: Motherhood
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird—that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace—making the complicated simple, awesomely simple—that’s creativity.
—Charles Mingus
Topics: Simple Living, To Be Born Everyday, Creativity, Simplicity
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