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American musicians, instead of investigating ragtime, attempt to ignore it, or dismiss it with a contemptuous word. But that has always been the course of scholasticism in every branch of art. Whatever new thing the 'people' like is poohpoohed; whatever is 'popular' is spoken of as not worth the while. The fact is, nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best that he gives to the world he gathers from the he
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― The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
― The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
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„Indem wir nämlich zweifeln, gelangen wir zur Untersuchung und durch diese erfassen wir die Wahrheit.“ (aus 'Sic et Non')
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