Don Ellis's Quotes
Born: 1934-07-25
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
Biography of Don Ellis
To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.
Tags: Artist, Others, TrueI 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.
Tags: Expect, Interested, MusicOn those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.
Tags: Anyone, Dead, MindI got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.
Tags: Bored, Old, SaidIf 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.
Tags: Music, Rather, Rest