Ragtime Quotes

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Ragtime was my lullaby.

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

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.