Contradiction Quote by 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…

— Jelly Roll Morton

Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll,…

— The Edge

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its…

— Tim Cahill

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

— Steve Lacy

“The role of these New Orleans Creoles in the development of jazz remains one of the least understood and most commonly mis-represented issues in…

— Ted Gioia

The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that…

— Duke Ellington

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

— John Goodman

What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans…

— Damien Chazelle

“ORIGIN OF JAZZ It was 1906. People were coming and going as usual along Perdido Street in a poor neighborhood of New Orleans. A…

— Eduardo Galeano

All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz.

— Trombone Shorty

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people…

— John Legend

I love New Orleans. I love jazz. I grew up practicing jazz piano, and that's just been such a cool genre to me. There's…

— Daya