My contributions were many First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.
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Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.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 form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.
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 . . . whatever your tunes were over there, we played them in New Orleans.
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 style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
Jelly Roll Morton
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
Jelly Roll Morton
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