"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 Quotes #Cities Quotes #Kansas City Quotes

“Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken”
“The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride.”
“Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue.”

Source : James A. Owen (2010). “Shadow Dragons”, p.132, Simon and Schuster
“It is never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest.”
“Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.”
“I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.”
“I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists”
“Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.”

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