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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

Topics: About Because Bone Cruelest Feel Game Honesty Honesty Is Hurt Only Same Same Time Self-Righteous Someone Them Time You

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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

Topics: Look Music Real Real World Related See Skills Structure Symmetry The Real World Theme Variation World You

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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

Topics: Afraid Because Either Failure Gets Success Way Work You Your

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

~Dave Van Ronk

Topics: Audience Excel Front Incentive Working You

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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

Topics: After Basically Continuing Education Enrolled Go Jamaica Mark Me Month Officer Once Out Present Said School Send Seriously Show Something Take Up

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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

Topics: Apprenticeship Even Felt Help Jazz Likable Musicians Obligation Personally System Teach Were You Young Younger

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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

Topics: Actually Around Banner Classroom Discovered Earliest Earliest Memories Eight Full Knew Memories Nuns Old Phenomenon Sent Seven Star Thing Three Verses Whole Years

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

~Dave Van Ronk

Topics: Both Brooklyn Grandfather Navy Uncle Worked Yard

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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.

~Dave Van Ronk

Topics: Cool Early Including Jazz Listen Mainstream Most Now Right Up

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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

Topics: Acoustic Acts Although Any Been Before Closing Down Early Getting Had Labels More Much Out Pretty Record Rooms Signing Some Time Were 1970S

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: June 30th, 1936

Died: February 10th, 2002

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