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Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk
American Musician
Born: Jun 30, 1936
Died: Feb 10, 2002
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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
Time You Game Hurt Honesty Honesty Is Bone About Someone Only Cruelest Feel Because Self-Righteous Same Same Time Them
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
Success Work Failure You Way Because Gets Afraid Either Your
When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel. Dave Van Ronk
You Excel Audience Front Working Incentive
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
You Musicians Obligation Young Jazz Apprenticeship System Likable Felt Were Personally Younger Teach Help Even
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
Memories Old Three Nuns Seven Classroom Knew Around Years Discovered Verses Eight Banner Spangled Sent Full Whole Star Actually Thing Earliest Earliest Memories Phenomenon
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Dave Van Ronk
Uncle Brooklyn Both Yard Grandfather Worked Navy
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
Time Before Down Out Signing Record Some Pretty More Had Although Were Been Labels Any Getting Closing Acoustic Rooms Much Acts Early
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
Music You World Related See Variation Structure Look Real The Real World Real World Theme Skills Symmetry
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
You Song Wonderful Strong Country Down Winds Recorded Singers Got Were His Western Essentially Just Who Right Four

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