"In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the……" — 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 out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me."
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10 Quotes by Jelly Roll Morton
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Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.
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My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.
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Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
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I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even…
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I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before…
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Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.
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The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you…
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Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the…
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It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be…
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