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
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  1. Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

  2. 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.

  3. Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple awesomely simple that's creativity.

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