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Jelly Roll Morton

"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."

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"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen."

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"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."

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"In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport."

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"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."

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"It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters."

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"Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas."

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"So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago."

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"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets."

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"I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops."

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"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."

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Jelly Roll Morton
"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."

Chicago

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Jelly Roll Morton
"Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings."

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Jelly Roll Morton
"Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm."

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