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Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

J. Russell Lynes
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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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Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.

Scott Joplin
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[It influenced the music] in our own little way, just with the Ragtime feel. It's Hip-Hop. It's OutKast. It is what we've been doing for years. Some songs have a little more piano or whatever, but the whole project was a natural progression from a double CD. It was like, where do we go from here?,

Big Boi
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[Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's always jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes you put on her, she's the same old broad.

Lionel Hampton
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'Ragtime' is almost like doing an opera. The voices have to be amazing.

David Bryant
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