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 com…

- 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

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

- Don Ellis

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

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 i…

- Don Ellis