"There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You……" — Dave Van Ronk
"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."
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23 Quotes by Dave Van Ronk
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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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