Don Ellis Professions : Trumpeter Born : July 25, 1934 Died : December 17, 1978 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Don Ellis To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel. Don Ellis music artist thinking 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 jazz style world 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 come-up compromise levels 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 style hips years I expect the audience to come up to my level. Don Ellis jazz levels music On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead. Don Ellis dead behind mind long Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us! Don Ellis us touch band world 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 bored easy play way Similar Authors Booker Little trumpeter Arturo Sandoval trumpeter Al Hirt trumpeter Doc Severinsen trumpeter Herb Pomeroy trumpeter Hugh Masekela trumpeter All Authors
