Jelly Roll Morton Quotes

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• Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.
• My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.
• Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
• 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 style,…
• I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues…
• 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 out…
• Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.
• The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from . .…
• Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.
• It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year…

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