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.

  

  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.

  

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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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  • 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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• Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

  

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• Given the abysmal failure of state and local officials in Louisiana to plan adequately for or respond to the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, and given the long history of public corruption in Louisiana, ... I am not confident that Louisiana officials can be trusted to administer federal relief aid.

  

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• We had to work five back-to-back shows, forty-five minutes on, fifteen minutes off. That's just an awful lot of singing.

  

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• Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only.

  

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• True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

  

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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