Dave Van Ronk Quotes

• La honestidad es el juego más cruel de todos, porque no sólo puedes herir a alguien -y herirle hasta los huesos-, sino que al mismo tiempo puedes sentirte honrado de ti mismo por ello.

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  Hurt, Honesty, Self

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

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  Guitar, Way, Strings

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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.

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  Real, Skills, Asymmetry

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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.

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  Success, Congratulations, Way

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• Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.

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  Principles, Sometimes, Forget You

  Dave Van Ronk, Dave Ronk (2013). “The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edition]: A Memoir”, p.25, Da Capo Press

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

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  Incentives, Audience, Fronts

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• 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.

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  Country, Canción, Fuerte

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• If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.

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  Labels, Crackers, Boxes

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• 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

  Practice, Tape, Pieces

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• En el jazz hay un sistema de aprendizaje. Se enseña a los jóvenes. Así que, aunque los músicos no fueran personalmente tan simpáticos, sentían la obligación de ayudar a los más jóvenes.

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  Musician, Helping, Jazz

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• Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

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  Music, Couple, Cutting

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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.

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  Labels, Records, Rooms

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• And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

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  Thinking, Laughing, Retrospect

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

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  Cutting, Musician, Jazz

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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.

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  Heart, Cool Jazz, Bebop

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• I'm a very, very stubborn man.

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  Men, Stubborn

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• Mi tío y mi abuelo trabajaban en el astillero de Brooklyn.

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  Uncles, Grandfather, Navy

  Dave Van Ronk (2013). “The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edition]: A Memoir”, p.4, Da Capo Press

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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.

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  Stars, Memories, Eight

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• I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.

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  Kids, Exhibitionist

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• Creo que tengo más en común con un carpintero de lo que piensas. Juntamos cosas.

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  Thinking, Together, Might

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• I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.

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  Pensar, Años, Dos

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• By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.

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  Tired, Wanted

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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.

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  Madre, Padre, Clase

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