Charles Mingus Quotes

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

It's simple until you make it complicated.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

When all else fails, complicate matters.

People tend to complicate things in life.

The ones that make it complicated never get congratulated

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.

The plainest case in many words entangling.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.

It’s a fun playtime. Please, don’t kill it with big words.

Big ideas are usually simple ideas.

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.