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Dave Van Ronk Quotes: When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.
         

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.


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Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.



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.

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.



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.

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.



My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.



I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.



God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.

God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.



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.

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.



I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.



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.

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.



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.

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.





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