Charles Mingus discusses creating new music.

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Charles Mingus discusses his originality.

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Charles Mingus discusses artistic integrity versus commercial success.

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Q: “You keep creating new music, don’t you? You don’t really fall back on things you’ve done over the years all the time.”

A: “Well, it appears that sometimes to a point I sometimes I take a form I've used like Opus 3, which is Pithecanthropus Erectus. I did it because most of the guys there were doing that when ... Well, most of the so-called modern guys, are using one chord when I was doing that 25 years ago. So, I do is put on there since. This changed the melody around using the same car batteries.”