Quotes About Ragtime

may have marched to war to ragtime tunes, but few troops could have suspected that among their ranks were men with ballgowns packed in their kitbags

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

In spite of the bans which musicians and music teachers have placed on it, the people still demand and enjoy Ragtime.

Freud] sat in his quiet cozy study in Vienna, glad to be back. He said to Ernest Jones, America is a mistake, a gigantic mistake." Ragtime

The American cultural scales were teetering, with the stable orthodoxy of WASP assumptions being challenged by the unwashed hordes of immigrants, African Americans, and working-class people along with intellectual and aesthetic developments broadly known as "the modern." Ragtime would help tip the scales.

My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.

Suonavamo perché l'Oceano è grande, e fa paura, suonavamo perché la gente non sentisse passare il tempo, e si dimenticasse dov'era, e chi era. Suonavamo per farli ballare, perché se balli non puoi morire, e ti senti Dio. E suonavamo il ragtime, perché è la musica su cui Dio balla, quando nessuno lo vede. Su cui Dio ballava, se solo era negro.

Suonavamo per farli ballare, perché se balli non puoi morire, e ti senti Dio. E suonavamo il ragtime, perché è la musica su cui Dio balla, quando nessuno lo vede.

'Ragtime' was the most magical show that I've done. I had an incredible experience with that, with the show itself, with the cast, with the audience. The response to that show - my God, it really blew me away, the reactions to that show, the way it changed their lives and altered their thinking, their own self-discovery.

Marching onward, marching onward Marching to that lovely tune Marching onward, marching onward Happy as a bird in June Sliding onward, sliding onward Listen to that rag Hop and skip now do that slow, oh Do that slow drag Dance slowly, prance slowly Now you hear that pretty rag Dance slowly, prance slowly Now you do the real slow drag Waltz slowly, waltz slowly Listen to the ragtime Hop and skip Now do the slow, oh, do the slow drag

Whenever I sing blues from the '50s or the kind of blues that you might have heard Eric Clapton or Duane Allman emulate, I often feel the similarity of some of the ragtime stuff I sang early on. A lot of the phrasing and the harmonization is the same.

The first time I really had an influence on a show was during 'Ragtime.' It's still the most magical show that I've ever done.

What Berlin had created was a hybrid pop song. It had a great hook and a memorable title, and it was easy to sing. It also melded a slight melancholy, which Berlin reckoned he had learned from 'Slavonic and Semitic folk tunes', with the vogueish ragtime style, which is what gave it a subtle urban edge (he later wrote an essay called 'Song and Sorrow Are Playmates').

To take the ugly language out of 'Ragtime' is to sanitize it, and that does it a great disservice.

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

And if you care to hearThe "Swanee River"Played in ragtime,Come on and hear,Come on and hearAlexander's Ragtime Band.

Ragtime was my lullaby.