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title: "2 Audience Come Quotes By Don Ellis"
description: "2 Audience Come quotes by Don Ellis. Plus more from Don Ellis and more Audience Come sayings from other authors."
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> [I expect the audience to come up to my level.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-ellis/i-expect-the-audience-to-come-up-to-my-level/)

[Don Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-ellis/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fc/don-ellis-47022_audience_i-expect-the-audience-to-come-up-to-my-l_1875172.png)

> [I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-ellis/i-expect-the-audience-to-come-up-to-my-level-i-am-not-interested-in/)

[Don Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-ellis/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e05/don-ellis-47022_audience_i-expect-the-audience-to-come-up-to-my-l_2916911.png)

## More by Don Ellis

> [If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-ellis/if-one-takes-all-the-styles-in-jazz-harmonically-from-the-earliest/)

[Don Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-ellis/)

> [I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-ellis/i-got-bored-with-the-old-way-it-came-too-easy-i-worked-until-i-could/)

[Don Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-ellis/)

> [To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-ellis/to-be-a-true-artist-you-have-to-play-the-way-you-feel-not-the-way/)

[Don Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-ellis/)

> [I expect the audience to come up to my level.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-ellis/i-expect-the-audience-to-come-up-to-my-level/)

[Don Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-ellis/)

> [Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-ellis/because-when-we-are-right-there-is-not-a-band-in-the-world-that-can/)

[Don Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-ellis/)

> [On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-ellis/on-those-long-notes-behind-the-trumpet-solo-if-anyone-lets-his-mind/)

[Don Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-ellis/)

> [I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-ellis/i-expect-the-audience-to-come-up-to-my-level-i-am-not-interested-in/)

[Don Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-ellis/)

> [It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-ellis/it-is-my-belief-that-there-is-a-tendency-among-the-so-called-modern/)

[Don Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-ellis/)

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