"In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms……" — Dave Van Ronk
"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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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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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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I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.
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More Acoustic Quotes
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
— Kevin Bacon
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Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and…
— Lester Bangs
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In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just…
— Travis Barker
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
— Eric Clapton
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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year.…
— Eric Clapton
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
— Ian Anderson
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk…
— Ian Anderson
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Since Pawlow [Pavlov] and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of…
— Jacques Loeb
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Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit…
— Andy Gibb
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There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy…
— Michael Martin Murphey
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