Jelly Roll Quotes

#1. I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good lookin' and always about he wrote this and that and the other thing - in fact, everything!

Zutty Singleton

#2. I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp ... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

Eric Clapton

#3. The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of our music - Jelly Roll Morton - they're not preaching a separatist agenda. They're not taking their music and saying, "This is for me."

Wynton Marsalis

#4. 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

#5. Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

Jelly Roll Morton

#6. Jesus announced which will be the criteria of the final judgment of our lives: we will be judged according to love.We will be judged according to the poor of spirit or money.

Mother Teresa

#7. Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?

C.S. Lewis

#8. Magnets collide, and swiftly align.

Laini Taylor

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

Jelly Roll Morton

#10. 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.

Jelly Roll Morton

#11. Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

Jelly Roll Morton

#12. A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.

Madonna Ciccone

#13. 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

#14. It takes a long time for words to become thought ...

May Sarton

#15. The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Jelly Roll Morton

#17. The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#18. Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

Jelly Roll Morton

#19. Roll me in sugar and call me a fuckin jelly-doughnut!

Stephen King

#20. 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.

Jelly Roll Morton

#21. My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f*****g perch. And you can print that.

Alex Ferguson

#22. A lot of people think I'm snotty. So what? They never asked me out when I was serving cheeseburgers.

Cathy Moriarty

#23. And the Internet was such a jumble of false and true factoids that no one believed what was on it any more, or else they believed all of it, which amounted to the same thing.

Margaret Atwood

#24. There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts.

Janet Reno

#25. 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.

Jelly Roll Morton

#26. 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

#27. Devour your fear.

Simon Holt

#28. If you lie to yourself you will lie to God too.

Tyler Perry

#29. The problem in Burma is the problem in Egypt, the problem you refer to in Yemen, and the problem in a lot of these countries in the world: that you can get stuck in the process of transition, in what's been called a competitive authoritarian ... a pseudo democratic regime.

Larry Diamond