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

- Scott Joplin

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

- 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 la…

- Scott Joplin

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

- 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

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

- Scott Joplin

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…

- Scott Joplin

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

- Scott Joplin

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

- Scott Joplin