Jelly Roll Morton
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.Collection: Music
Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.
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.
Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Music
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.Collection: New Orleans
You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.Collection: Latin
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.Collection: Ducks
My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.Collection: Witty
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.Collection: World
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 originated from.Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans