Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional and the emotion in the music is built in whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.
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I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn – at this late stage in life! – to actually control that.
