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"I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit."
"There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist."
"I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to."
"A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production."
"I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen."
"You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself."
"Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead."
"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."
"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."
"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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