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Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
— Jelly Roll Morton
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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.
— Jelly Roll Morton
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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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Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.
— Jelly Roll Morton
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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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