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 sub-standard mass."
- Don Ellis
(Related: Music)

"Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us!"
- Don Ellis
(Related: Right, World)

"On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead."
- Don Ellis
(Related: Mind)

"To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel."
- Don Ellis
(Related: Artist, Play)

"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
(Related: Music, Beginnings, Jazz, Rest, World)