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Dave Van Ronk quotes

American Musician June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002

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If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count. Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk quote: "You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of..."
You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work. Dave Van Ronk
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. Dave Van Ronk
They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously. Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk quote: "I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in..."
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician. Dave Van Ronk
If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience. Dave Van Ronk
One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing. Dave Van Ronk
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world. Dave Van Ronk
In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that. Dave Van Ronk
Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song. Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk quote: "By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was..."
By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway. Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk quote: "My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy..."
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk quote: "When you're working in front of an audience, you have..."
When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel. Dave Van Ronk
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians. Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk quote: "Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935..."
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz. Dave Van Ronk

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