"Rejoice at the death and cry at the……" — Jelly Roll Morton
"Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures."
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10 Quotes by Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton has 10 quotes on this site.
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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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In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this…
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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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More Birth Quotes
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one of 2,462 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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