Ragtime famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • It is funny what a year can do.

  • I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.

  • I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

  • I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.

  • I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

  • Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

  • Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

  • Good listening works magic... Listen intently intentionally!

  • The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery of passages which lead everywhere and nowhere. The ideas are presented, stood on their head, dissolved into fragments, until the ultimate message becomes the connections of all things great and small, a chain of being which cannot be secured until the last note is in place.

  • The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.