Ragtime Quotes

• Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.

  

  Scott Joplin
  • Play
  • Fast
  • Piece

• It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Time
  • Existence
  • Witness

• Ragtime plinking, glasses clinking, choruses getting sung with only half the lyrics right, giggles bubbling over like a tower of champagne. It's a party, shaking down the dawn.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Party
  • Glasses
  • Bubbling

• I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Question
  • Answers
  • Permit

• Meloy's balladry brings to mind vaudeville, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, 'Sweeney Todd,' the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Kurt Weill and Nick Cave, 1960s psychedelic rock pop and roaring pub sing-alongs.

  

  Colin Meloy
  • Vaudeville
  • Meloy
  • Balladry