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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.

Source: In Hear Me Talkin' To Ya, by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff.
-- Jelly Roll Morton, (Sep 20 c. 1885-1941), US jazz singer, composer, pianist, bandleader; He was the first great composer of orchestral jazz.

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