8+ Scott Joplin Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Scott Joplin quotes and sayings.

One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers. — Scott Joplin

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that. — Scott Joplin

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy. — Scott Joplin

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me. — Scott Joplin

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.' — Scott Joplin

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture. — Scott Joplin

It is never right to play ragtime fast. — Scott Joplin

Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast. — Scott Joplin