Source: Charlie Mingus, the jazz bassist, speaking about creativity in the July, 1977 issue of Mainliner as reported in “Creativity and the writing process” (1982) by Olivia Bertagnolli; Page 181.

Complete Sentence: Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.