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Dave Van Ronk

"In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that."

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"In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that."

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"Time is always standing still, we are only changing."

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"But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing."

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"The time is always right, just act."

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"We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer."

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"All times are treasureable; the times of prosperity, and times of adversity."

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"Time is the most valuable currency so spend it wisely"

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"In the beauty of the mornings we forget about the night; in the beauty of the night we forget about the mornings! When you meet the beauty, you drop anchor in the present time and all other times disappear from your mind!"

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"Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them."

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"I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film."

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"For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time."

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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."

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"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
"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."

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Dave Van Ronk
"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."

Education

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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."

Work

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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."

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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 a very, very stubborn man."

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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."

Jazz

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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."

Living

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