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Don Ellis Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 25, 1934 - December 17, 1978

Topics

Think Feel You Artist Play True

When I'm at home I practice everyday.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Home Practice Everyday

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

Great Mom Skiing Charity Year Event

Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.

Life Good Time People Quiet Shy

There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet.

Problem Trying Information Discovery

At the end of the day, I'm an actor. I'm not here to sell other stuff or use off-screen things to generate whether or not I work. If I'm any good, I'll work; if I'm not, I won't.

Work Good Day End Of The Day End

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

Music Never Release Pieces Make CDs

I'm living every day that it could be my last, and I'm grateful for every day.

Day Grateful Every Day Living Last

When I was in my mid-20s, running a successful company and clinically depressed, I was afraid to talk to anyone other than my psychiatrist about it. I was ashamed that I was even seeing a psychiatrist.

Seeing Talk Company Afraid Ashamed

No one can force you to do a film. I am responsible for the films I chose, hit or flop. I am where I am because of what those films taught me.

I Am Me You Responsible Force Film

I prefer to create friction. Because if you're not pushing buttons, you're just making something pleasant; it's probably been done before, and it's not making anyone feel anything.

Feel You Create Done Anything Been

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

Morning Lunch Dinner Book Thought

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

Susannah McCorkle

Happy Small Long Career Big Hit

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