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.
Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right. - Dave Van Ronk
Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.
- 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 discover… - 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 discover…
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
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.
God has a way of telling you when to change your strings. - Dave Van Ronk
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. - Dave Van Ronk
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.
When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel. - Dave Van Ronk
When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.
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… - Dave Van Ronk
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…
I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid. - Dave Van Ronk
I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.
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 wonde… - 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 wonde…
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