Scott Joplin Quotes (7 Quotes)

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

American Composer.

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.

Let me see you do the rag time dance Turn left and do the Cake walk prance Turn the other way and do the Slow drag Now take your lady to the world's fair . . . And do the rag time dance.

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

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