"That’s who I am. I don’t look much like him now with my foot wrapped up and all that kind of business."

"Boy, when I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me."

"Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at "hateful ragtime" no longer passes for …"

"Never play ragtime fast at any time."

"Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy."

"Good times coming. Good times have come."

"Listening to the strains of genuine negro ragtime, brokers forget their cares."

"Comin' in on a wing and a pray'r Comin' in on a wing and a pray'r Tho' there's one motor gone, We can still carry on,…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."