My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.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.
Dave Van Ronk
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.
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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.
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Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
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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 of your work.
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