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Top 8 Jelly Roll Morton Quotes (2025 Update)

Jelly Roll Morton Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Jelly Roll Morton Quote: “Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.”

2. “Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.”

— Jelly Roll Morton

Jelly Roll Morton Quote: “Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.”

3. “Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.”

— Jelly Roll Morton

Jelly Roll Morton Quote: “Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.”

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

Jelly Roll Morton Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Jelly Roll Morton Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Jelly Roll Morton Quote: “My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.”

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

— Jelly Roll Morton

Jelly Roll Morton Quote: “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.”

8. “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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