13 Quotes by Scott Joplin

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.

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

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