QotD

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2010-07-11:

"If I'm going to die, I'm ready. But I'm going out playing `Sophisticated Lady.' "

-- Charles Mingus, musician, on refusing to leave a concert venue in 1972 that had received a bomb threat. Mingus told police "Racism planted that bomb, but racism ain't strong enough to kill this music."

[ http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/05/17/100517crat_atlarge_pierpont?currentPage=6#ixzz0oBWZi]

(submitted to the mailing list by Trevor Goodyear)

[Happy birthday to starmalachite!]