Jelly Roll Morton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.
-- Jelly Roll Morton

#Music #Piano #Feelings
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
-- Jelly Roll Morton

#Sweet #Jazz #Music Is
Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.
-- Jelly Roll Morton

#Music #Style #May
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.
-- Jelly Roll Morton

#New Orleans #Scripture #Sticks
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.
-- Jelly Roll Morton

#Peculiar #World #Jazz
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.
-- Jelly Roll Morton

#Ducks #Knees #Jazz
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.
-- Jelly Roll Morton

#New Orleans #Cities #Kansas City
My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.
-- Jelly Roll Morton

#Witty #Directors #Firsts
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 Morton

#Music #New Orleans #Years
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

#New Orleans #Differences #House

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