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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. — 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 don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two. — Dave Van Ronk
- When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel. — Dave Van Ronk
- By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway. — Dave Van Ronk