Top 27 Quotes About Jelly Roll Morton
#1. 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
#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. I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. It gave me the mental equivalent of one of those toothaches you get when you bite into something too sweet.
Kathryn Lasky
#4. Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.
Jelly Roll Morton
#5. The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
J.M. Campos
#6. The true test of a soldier's mettle is to see whether or not they will cling to what they believe in, even in the face of impending death.
Matthew S. Williams
#7. He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#8. So put your costume on, honey! Ruby said. Set Harlequin free! That party monster of yours is screaming to come out. Let the monster out!
Tom Spanbauer
#10. My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.
Jelly Roll Morton
#11. 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
#12. Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.
Jelly Roll Morton
#14. When we blaze trails, which is what Hulu is about, it takes time. That is not for the faint of heart, and we understand that.
Jason Kilar
#15. 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
#18. Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.
Jonathan Swift
#19. If you don't give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.
James Altucher
#20. It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world.
Tim Weiner
#21. 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
#23. Death is the last weapon of the tyrant; the point of the resurrection, despite much misunderstanding, is that death has been defeated.
N. T. Wright
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the reasons I became Jewish is because I love text study.
Anthony Heald
#27. 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
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