Don Ellis Quotes

• To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.

  Don Ellis

  Music, Thinking, Artist

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• 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 compared to the rest of music in the world.

  Don Ellis

  Style, World, Jazz

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• 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.

  Don Ellis

  Levels, Compromise, Come Up

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• 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', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.

  Don Ellis

  Years, Style, Hips

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• I expect the audience to come up to my level.

  Don Ellis

  Music, Levels, Jazz

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