Quotes About Scott Joplin

#1. We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We care that Scott Joplin's music lives! We care because we know this: the life we save is our own.

Alice Walker

#2. My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.'

Miranda Leek

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

Scott Joplin

#4. Someone who works only for the money will give you trouble one day because of money.

Jin Sun Mi

#5. L.A. can be very superficial, and it's hard to meet cool people here. I try to stay away from the glitzy side of the business and have a normal life as much as possible. I keep to myself.

Jessica Lucas

#6. The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.

Jeet Aulakh

#8. I only do His will, replied Death. I am his gardener. I take all His flowers and trees, and transplant them into the gardens of Paradise in an unknown land. How they flourish there, and what that garden resembles, I may not tell you.

Hans Christian Andersen

#9. Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

Scott Joplin

#10. When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

Scott Joplin

#11. The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

Tahereh Mafi

#12. 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

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

Scott Joplin

#14. I'm certainly not saying that my life is what success is all about. To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more.

Tony Robbins

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

Scott Joplin

#16. Mahendra Singh Dhoni is Good But Sourav Ganguly Best Captain

Yuvraj Singh

#17. Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.

Scott Simon

#18. I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town.

Dean Ambrose

#19. All over this country you have progressive communities like Madison and Burlington, but we've got to go well, well, well outside of those communities. We've got to go to the rural areas. We've got to go where a lot of working people are voting Republican.

Bernie Sanders

#20. In all honesty, my favorite place to write is an anonymous, cheap hotel in a city or town where nobody knows me, the wireless service is spotty, and the adjoining gas station has coffee, beer and junk food.

Dean Bakopoulos

#21. Politicians show no signs of even knowing the difference between negative and positive rights. Blinded by the dazzle of anything that makes them popular, they honestly may not be able to tell.

P. J. O'Rourke