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Ragtime Quotes by Scott Joplin
- Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.
- Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.
- It is never right to play ragtime fast.
More Ragtime Quotes
- New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime,… — 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
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- It is never right to play ragtime fast. — Scott Joplin
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