Syncopations In Music Quotes & Sayings

What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians ... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article ... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music ... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast. — Scott Joplin

Hickory dickory dock my daddy's nuts from shellshock. — Dalton Trumbo

Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it? — Jack Palance

Old pond - frogs jumped in - sound of water — Basho Matsuo

I have seen the Future, because there is Nothing new under the Sun — Kaizen Kobe

I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby. — Sharon Creech

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