Jelly Roll Morton Quotes
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Jelly Roll Morton Quotes & Sayings
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I hate the stress of leaving. Even though I have everything I need, I always feel like I'm forgetting something.
— Eric Halvorsen
Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.
— Jelly Roll Morton
My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.
— Jelly Roll Morton
Is it OK to say, "these are the things that I value. This is what I'm going to pursue in life"?
— Larissa MacFarquhar
Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part.
— Edward Albee
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
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
— Jelly Roll Morton
The unconscious creates, the ego edits.
— Stanley Kunitz
Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.
— Jelly Roll Morton
The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
— Donald Miller
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.
— Jelly Roll Morton
A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day. — Richard Crashaw
If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said."-from "That intention is judge of our actions — Michel De Montaigne
Don't always deprive yourself trying to please others
— Sunday Adelaja
Having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.
— Ishmael Beah
Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.
— Will Rogers
We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.
— Panayiotis Zavos
