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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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