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Dave Van Ronk
American
June 30, 1936
Musician
By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.
Dave Van Ronk
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Get
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I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.
Dave Van Ronk
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I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
Dave Van Ronk
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Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
Dave Van Ronk
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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
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Going
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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.
Dave Van Ronk
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They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.
Dave Van Ronk
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