Don Ellis Quotes
- 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…
- If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when…
- 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, 'corny',…
- I expect the audience to come up to my level.
- To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.
- On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.
- Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us!
- I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in…