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

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

- Jelly Roll Morton

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

- 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…

- 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 …

- 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…

- 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…

- Jelly Roll Morton

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

- Jelly Roll Morton