Ragtime Quotes
Collection of top 21 famous quotes about Ragtime
Ragtime Quotes & Sayings
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A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier
— Gustave Flaubert
Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.
— Russell Lynes
It is never right to play ragtime fast.
— Scott Joplin
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
— Thomas Sowell
It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world.
— Peter Diamandis
If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.
— Tom Scholz
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
— Caleb Cushing
Our very existence makes them abominate us, for it calls their own wives and daughters to aspire to freedom.
— Steven Pressfield
Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.
— Scott Joplin
See how firmly Alexei Fyodorovich endures his misfortune.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Ragtime was my lullaby.
— Hoagy Carmichael
The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.
— Bonnie Langford
In spite of the bans which musicians and music teachers have placed on it, the people still demand and enjoy Ragtime.
— James Weldon Johnson
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[Freud] "sat in his quiet cozy study in Vienna, glad to be back. He said to Ernest Jones, America is a mistake, a gigantic mistake." Ragtime
— E.L. Doctorow
Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.
— Marjane Satrapi
As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.
— Daisy Whitney
