Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (Jelly Roll Morton) Quotes

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.

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe

• Jazz
• Mathematics
• Blues
• Harmonies

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Up

• 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

• 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.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Creation
  • Blues
  • Published

• Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Scriptures

• In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Jazz
  • Happened
  • Sections

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

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Director
  • Dressed
  • Contributions

• Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Music
  • Sweet

• 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.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Jazz
  • Creator
  • Known

• You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Jazz
  • Elements
  • Latin Music

• 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.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Today
  • City
  • Style

• Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Music
  • Knowledge
  • Style

• 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.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Jazz
  • Mathematics
  • Blues