"I enjoyed it an awful lot, and it was very easy work, very easy. I just worked because I enjoyed it, and I enjoyed the money. Then I had some difficulties that I would like to forget, and now I'm through with it, and it's out of mind. It's hard for me to recall things."
(Pauline Starke, diva del muto; Joplin, 10 gennaio 1901 – Santa Monica, 3 febbraio 1977)