Quotes Dave Van Ronk

But by 1976 I hung it up for a while. To hell with this. I h...

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was t...

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can yo...

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in...

I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1...

I formed a rock and roll band in 1965....

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you migh...

I'm a very, very stubborn man....

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid....

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were ess...

If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I ...

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the ...

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stri...

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symm...

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, ...

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 ri...

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy...

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of t...

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the you...

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they...

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incent...

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of su...