American - Musician | June 30, 1936 - February 10, 2002
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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Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.
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I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.
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I'm a very, very stubborn man.
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I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.
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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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I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
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By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.
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