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Scott Joplin Quotes

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

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

Scott Joplin
Years, People, Twenties

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

Scott Joplin
Play, Pieces, Jazz
Victoria J. Theodore, Scott Joplin, Stanford University. Dept. of Music (1990). “The ragtime solo piano works of Scott Joplin: an analysis and performing edition of three pieces”

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

Scott Joplin
Kings, One Day, Ragtime

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

Scott Joplin
Light, Musical, Shy
Scott Joplin, Maurice Hinson (1990). “Scott Joplin at the Piano”, p.5, Alfred Music Publishing

What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.

Scott Joplin
Real, Player, Light

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

Scott Joplin
Movement, Jazz, Ragged

Marching onward, marching onward Marching to that lovely tune Marching onward, marching onward Happy as a bird in June Sliding onward, sliding onward Listen to that rag Hop and skip now do that slow, oh Do that slow drag Dance slowly, prance slowly Now you hear that pretty rag Dance slowly, prance slowly Now you do the real slow drag Waltz slowly, waltz slowly Listen to the ragtime Hop and skip Now do the slow, oh, do the slow drag

Scott Joplin
Real, June, Bird

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

Scott Joplin
Wall, Feelings, Panic

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.'

Scott Joplin
Cake, Rags, World

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