In a note on the sheet music for the song "Leola" Joplin wrote, "Notice! Don't play this piece fast. It is never right to play 'ragtime' fast." E. L. Doctorow used the quotation as the epigraph to his novel Ragtime.
In a not.e on the sheet music :for the son!g "Leola" Joplin wrote, "Notice Don't play this piece fast. It is never right to play 'ragtime' fast." E. L D.octorow used the quotation as the epigraph to his novel Ragtime