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.

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.

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

I expect the audience to come up to my level.