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.

If you're going to be fighting anyway, why not fight to win and not just to survive.

One minute with a silent spirit of self-knowledge is enough to align you to put smiles on the face of the boring world. The world needs you! Yes it does!

We refuse to put guards on duty, we would rather pray for God’s protection.

I lived in London for small amounts of time, and in Florida and New York.

If I were the commissioner of all sports media, the one change I would make is to sprinkle a little niceness and civility across our industry. Just a touch.

My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.

Keeping quiet and letting the others do the talking. That may be Angela Merkel's method, but it's not mine.

Never say money is hard to get. Money will hear you, and that's just what she'll be.

Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.