Scott Joplin Quotes

It is never right to play ragtime fast.

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

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

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

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