"If you look at music, you see theme,……" — 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."
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23 Quotes by Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk has 23 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and…
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I'm a very, very stubborn man.
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My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.
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One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or…
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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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Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded…
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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…
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Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.
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By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.
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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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More Asymmetry Quotes
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The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must…
— Louis Pasteur
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The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result…
— Louis Pasteur
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Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.
— Jan Tschichold
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I worry because there is a basic asymmetry, an imbalance, between the two parties. For the Palestinians, it is about…
— Abraham Foxman
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Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its…
— Jan Tschichold
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Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time…
— Daniel H. Pink
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The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a…
— Paul Rand
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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great…
— Jasper Fforde
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In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives:…
— Sean M. Carroll
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People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them…
— Daniel Kahneman
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