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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."

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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."

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Donna Grant

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

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Donna Grant

"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."

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Donna Grant

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

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Donna Grant

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

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Donna Grant

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

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Donna Grant

"Having a job does not mean living."

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Donna Grant

"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."

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Donna Grant

"Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart."

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Donna Grant

"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."

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Donna Grant

"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."

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Dave Van Ronk
"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."

Country

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Dave Van Ronk
"I'm a very, very stubborn man."

Man

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Dave Van Ronk
"My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard."

Navy

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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."

Living

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Dave Van Ronk
"By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway."

Business

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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."

Help

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Dave Van Ronk
"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."

Classroom

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Dave Van Ronk
"If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count."

Family

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Dave Van Ronk
"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."

Work

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Dave Van Ronk
"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."

Jazz

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