Ragtime Quotes

9 quotes by 7 authors

• New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional… — Wynton Marsalis
• Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture. — Scott Joplin
• Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast. — Scott Joplin
• My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made… — James Weldon Johnson
• Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century. — Russell Lynes
• Ragtime was my lullaby. — Hoagy Carmichael
• Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official… — Jack Kerouac
• It is never right to play ragtime fast. — Scott Joplin
• These friendly skies aint for you, they for me and mine, this the year of the grimy nigga, Ragtime, peep these niggas on the run,… — Wu Tang

Who Wrote These Ragtime Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 9 Ragtime Quotes as follows:

• 3 Ragtime Quotes by Scott Joplin
• 1 Ragtime Quote by Wynton Marsalis
• 1 Ragtime Quote by James Weldon Johnson
• 1 Ragtime Quote by Russell Lynes
• 1 Ragtime Quote by Hoagy Carmichael
• 1 Ragtime Quote by Jack Kerouac
• 1 Ragtime Quote by Wu Tang