Jelly Roll Morton quotes
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“Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.”
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“Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.”
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“Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.”
-- Jelly Roll MortonSource : 1938 In Downbeat, Aug.
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“Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.”
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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 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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“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 published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.”
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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 get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.”
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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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“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 1902.”
-- Jelly Roll MortonSource : 1938 In Downbeat, Aug.
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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 just came from . . . whatever your tunes were over there, we played them in New Orleans.”
-- Jelly Roll Morton
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