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.
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 styl… - Jelly Roll Morton
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 styl…
- Jelly Roll Morton
Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings. - Jelly Roll Morton
Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.
You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music. - Jelly Roll Morton
You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.
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 whe… - Jelly Roll Morton
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 whe…
My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies. - Jelly Roll Morton
My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.
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 … - Jelly Roll Morton
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 …
In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originat… - Jelly Roll Morton
In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originat…
The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from . . . what… - Jelly Roll Morton
The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from . . . what…
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. - Jelly Roll Morton
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
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