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Don Ellis

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together."

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Amber Hurdle

"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

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Amber Hurdle

"But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."

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Amber Hurdle

"Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did."

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Amber Hurdle

"I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone."

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Amber Hurdle

"My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it."

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Amber Hurdle

"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."

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

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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."

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Don Ellis
"On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead."

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Don Ellis
"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."

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Don Ellis
"Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us!"

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Don Ellis
"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."

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