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> [Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jelly-roll-morton/jazz-music-is-a-style-not-compositions-any-kind-of-music-may-be/)

[Jelly Roll Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jelly-roll-morton/)

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## More by Jelly Roll Morton

> [Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jelly-roll-morton/get-up-from-that-piano-you-hurtin-its-feelings/)

[Jelly Roll Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jelly-roll-morton/)

> [I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jelly-roll-morton/i-have-been-robbed-of-three-million-dollars-all-told-everyone-today/)

[Jelly Roll Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jelly-roll-morton/)

> [I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jelly-roll-morton/i-do-not-claim-any-of-the-creation-of-the-blues-although-i-have/)

[Jelly Roll Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jelly-roll-morton/)

> [The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jelly-roll-morton/the-sporting-houses-needed-professors-and-we-had-so-many-different/)

[Jelly Roll Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jelly-roll-morton/)

> [You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jelly-roll-morton/you-can-t-make-jazz-without-using-certain-elements-of-latin-music/)

[Jelly Roll Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jelly-roll-morton/)

> [Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jelly-roll-morton/jazz-music-is-to-be-played-sweet-soft-plenty-rhythm/)

[Jelly Roll Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jelly-roll-morton/)

> [Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jelly-roll-morton/rejoice-at-the-death-and-cry-at-the-birth-new-orleans-sticks-close-to/)

[Jelly Roll Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jelly-roll-morton/)

> [My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jelly-roll-morton/my-contributions-were-many-first-clown-director-with-witty-sayings/)

[Jelly Roll Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jelly-roll-morton/)

> [In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jelly-roll-morton/in-1908-handy-didn-t-know-anything-about-the-blues-and-he-doesn-t/)

[Jelly Roll Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jelly-roll-morton/)

> [It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jelly-roll-morton/it-is-evidently-known-beyond-contradiction-that-new-orleans-is-the/)

[Jelly Roll Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jelly-roll-morton/)

> [Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jelly-roll-morton/jazz-music-is-a-style-not-compositions-any-kind-of-music-may-be/)

[Jelly Roll Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jelly-roll-morton/)

> [ In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections \[in New Orleans\] where… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jelly-roll-morton/in-the-year-of-1902-when-i-was-about-seventeen-years-old-i-happened/)

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