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Don Ellis
American
Musician
About the author
I 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.
Don Ellis,
American
Musician
#Now
#Play
#Old
#Key
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,
American
Musician
#Music
Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us!
Don Ellis,
American
Musician
#Right
#World
On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.
Don Ellis,
American
Musician
#Mind
To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.
Don Ellis,
American
Musician
#Play
#Artist
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,
American
Musician
#World
#Rest
#Beginnings
#Jazz
#Music