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

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

Marching onward, marching onward Marching to that lovely tune Marching onward, marching onward Happy as a bird in June Sliding onward, slidi….

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

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 la….

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 masqu….

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

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

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy..