Scott Joplin Professions : Composer Born : November 24, 1868 Died : April 1, 1917 Browse All Authors Top 9 quotes by Scott Joplin Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast. Scott Joplin jazz pieces play When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me. Scott Joplin twenties people years 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 light real player One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers. Scott Joplin ragtime one-day kings Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture. Scott Joplin musical shy light Marching onward, marching onward Scott Joplin june real bird Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that. Scott Joplin ragged jazz movement Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'... Scott Joplin rags cake world Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy. Scott Joplin panic wall feelings Similar Authors Igor Stravinsky composer Irving Berlin composer Brian Ferneyhough composer Bryce Dessner composer Bradley Joseph composer Boudleaux Bryant composer All Authors
