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Don Ellis has 9 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable…
• If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather…
• It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that…
• 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…

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