I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit.… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
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… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from .… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
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… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
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