Ragtime Quotes
Ragtime Quote of the day
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.
My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.
It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.
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