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

— Scott Joplin

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What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians.

School of Ragtime (1908)

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

Never play ragtime fast at any time.

School of Ragtime (1908)

Listening to the strains of genuine negro ragtime, brokers forget their cares.

Wall Street Rag (1909)

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

Wall Street Rag (1909)

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The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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