Quotes About Ragtime

#1. What are a few false promises among friends, angel?"
"They're the difference between you and me ... that's what they are."
Vernon Kraft meets Ajax in The Ragtime Coven, coming soon!

Bruce Jenvey

#2. In spite of the bans which musicians and music teachers have placed on it, the people still demand and enjoy Ragtime.

James Weldon Johnson

#3. These officials changed names they couldn't pronounce and tore people from their families, consigning to a return voyage old folks, people with bad eyes, riffraff and also those who looked insolent. Such power was dazzling. The immigrants were reminded of home. " Ragtime

E.L. Doctorow

#4. One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers.

Scott Joplin

#5. War changes everything. The world is never the same after a war. Any war. There are holes ... missing parts ... The best you can do is pick up the pieces that are left and start to build again. It'll never be the way it was before.
Vernon Kraft from The Ragtime Coven (coming later this year!)

Bruce Jenvey

#6. Roger (Kellaway) amazed us all. Blessed with great technique, he could play any style, from ragtime to space music. Whatever style he chose to play at the moment would be filled with wonderful surprises that kept the rest of us continually delighted.

Bill Crow

#7. Ragtime was my lullaby.

Hoagy Carmichael

#8. Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.

Chris Ware

#9. 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

#10. Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

Walter Lippmann

#11. [Freud] "sat in his quiet cozy study in Vienna, glad to be back. He said to Ernest Jones, America is a mistake, a gigantic mistake." Ragtime

E.L. Doctorow

#12. It is never right to play ragtime fast.

Scott Joplin

#13. Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Russell Lynes

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

Scott Joplin

#15. I don't know if you picked up on the elephant in the room ... but we're witches. Angela, Andrea, me, and Evelyn and Celia back home.
Aunt Maddy from The Ragtime Coven

Bruce Jenvey

#16. My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

James Weldon Johnson

#17. The marriage seemed to flourish on Father's extended absences. " Ragtime

E.L. Doctorow

#18. I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.

Roger Angell

#19. I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

Tori Amos

#20. Life is always good, if those who are living a round you are happy with what's going on.

Auliq Ice

#21. Well, I've lost my wife. I've lost my job. I've lost 20 MINUTES OF MY LIFE! Damn the decaf.

Dave Foley

#22. ... you'll need some help getting acquainted. I'm Carmel Jones." "Theseus Cassio Lowood. What kind of a parent names their kid Carmel?" She laughs. "What kind of a parent names their kid Theseus Cassio?" "Hippies," I reply. "Exactly.

Kendare Blake

#23. Like hot food
I love you
like warm
bread & cold
cuts, butter
sammiches
or, days later, after
Thanksgiving
when I want
whatever's left

Kevin Young

#24. Eugenia never wears modish gowns. She says there are more important things to think of than one's dresses.'
'What a stupid thing to say!' remarked Sophy. 'Naturally there are, but not, I hold, when one is dressing for dinner.

Georgette Heyer

#25. Here I am, where I am supposed to be.

Isak Dinesen

#26. One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces ... in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces ...

Rebecca Harding Davis

#27. What's broken can always be fixed
What's fixed will always be broken

Jens Lekman