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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2009-04-02 under ,

"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 (b. 1922-04-22, d. 1979-01-05)


[Demonstrating that a great many quotation providers and users on the web either copy from each other without looking very closely or have all copied from the same offline sources, Google finds a whole lot of copies of this quote with "play" typoed as "plan", which didn't sound right. It took me a little more digging to find two pages that used "play" in that spot. (I copy from various quote collections, obviously, but I hope I haven't let something like this, or too many misattributions with well-known debunkings, slip by.)]

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