Scott Joplin quotes
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“Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.”
-- Scott JoplinSource : Scott Joplin, Maurice Hinson (1990). “Scott Joplin at the Piano”, p.5, Alfred Music Publishing
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“When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.”
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“Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.”
-- Scott JoplinSource : 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”
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“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.'”
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“Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.”
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“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”
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“Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.”
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“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.”
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“One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers.”
-- Scott Joplin
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Source : Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
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“The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.”
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“Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.”
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“I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.”
Source : "Learning How To Be King". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2000.
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