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.
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My contributions were many First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.Jelly Roll Morton
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
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Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.
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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.
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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.
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