Scott Joplin Quotes

Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers.

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.