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

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Source : Victoria J. Theodore, Scott Joplin, Stanford University. Dept. of Music (1990). “The ragtime solo piano works of Scott Joplin: an analysis and performing edition of three pieces”

Scott Joplin

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“Creativity is the new literacy”

Source : FaceBook post by Chase Jarvis from Sep 06, 2014
“International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.”
“If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are not going to reside on it.”
“I had never ironed anything in my life. The proper pressing of a shirt was a mystery of the universe akin to black holes and dark matter.”
“Failure assumes the world is black and white - no gray. I've come to find, it's all gray.”
“I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.”
“You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these men, all the private affections, all the public hopes, all that has been achieved in art, and knowledge and thought and all that might be achieved hereafter is to be wiped out forever. Our ruined lifeless planet will continue for countless ages to circle aimlessly round the sun unredeemed by the joys and loves, the occasional wisdom and the power to create beauty which have given value to human life.”
“I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.”

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