Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (Jelly Roll Morton) Quotes

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.

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe

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• I'll be starting two new production houses - Konidela Productions and White Horse Entertainments.

  

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• I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!

  

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• I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

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• There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them.

  

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• All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

  

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• Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.

  

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• The Rio Games, it will be a big goal.

  

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• I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.

  

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• Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

  

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• I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

  

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• Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.

  

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• I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

  

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• Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

  

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• Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

  

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• That's very rude," Myrnin said. "I haven't brought my fangs our for some time. Not in mixed company, anyway.

  

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• Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.

  

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• No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.

  

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• There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.

  

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• Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.

  

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• Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

  

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• Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.

  

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• 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.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Houses
  • Styles
  • Tunes