When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.
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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
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
If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.
Dave Van Ronk
I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.
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.
Dave Van Ronk
I formed a rock and roll band in 1965.
Dave Van Ronk
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