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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• Styles
• Tunes
• New Orleans

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• I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.

  

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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.

  

  Aloe Blacc
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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.

  

  James Brown
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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.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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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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  • 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.

  

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

  

  Neil Diamond
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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.

  

  Rachel Caine
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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.

  

  A. J. Liebling
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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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• Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth.

  

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• The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

  

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• Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.

  

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• I have joined my people in the new spirit that moves them today, the spirit that revolts openly and boldly against injustice and expresses itself in a determined and non-violent manner.

  

  Albert Lutuli
  • People
  • Injustice
  • Joined

• 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