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In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

Charles Mingus
Play, Trying, Jazz And Life
Charles Mingus' statement to Nat Hentoff as quoted in Anthony Fawcett "California Rock, California Sound: The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California" (p. 56), 1979, and in "Jazz: Beyond Time and Nations" in Nat Hentoff "The Nat Hentoff Reader" (p. 99), October 17, 2001.
In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.