"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

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“I think it's a nice payback. There aren't many people that kind of give back to artists that were their inspiration. Most people think they're . . . they're very self bloated.”
“Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.”
“Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For my part, when I find a man secure of himself and without fear, I give him up for lost. I am less alarmed for one who is tempted and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid occasions. When a person puts himself in an occasion, saying, I shall not fall, it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with great injury to his soul.”
“I do sometimes lecture people about what they're eating, but that's only if they ask me.”
“I believe that a parents role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.”
“I speculate that the genesis of the chicken-joke lies in some situation such as the one illustrated above, but over time the original context of the joke was lost, which left the chicken sadly decontextualized.”

Source : "Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?". www.insaneabode.com.
“Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.”
“There is no association richer than the companionship of husband and wife.”

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