A Quote by 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

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Don Ellis
American - Musician
July 25, 1934 - December 17, 1978

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

Don Ellis

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

Henry David Thoreau

Consequently, I get inspiration from all over the place. But it's not like a calculated thing on my part, or a way that I see myself, you know? I'm just interested in things that move me, and I don't care where they come from. In fact, I'm interested if they come from a place I wouldn't expect, or would seem foreign to me on some level.

Jim Jarmusch

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Amit Trivedi

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Brad Furman

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Rick Derringer

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Virginia Postrel

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People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.

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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

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