Most blues don’t have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues. — 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
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren’t.. — Dave Van Ronk
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone – and hurt them to the bone — Dave Van Ronk
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician. — 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
I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We’re putting things together. — Dave Van Ronk
Ian and sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. — Dave Van Ronk
If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it – and I have the tapes to prove this — Dave Van Ronk
If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I’ve ever seen was — Dave Van Ronk
If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. — Dave Van Ronk
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure — Dave Van Ronk
In the early 1970s. 1971, ’72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren’t signing acoustic acts any more. — Dave Van Ronk
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz. — 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. — 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 — 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. — Dave Van Ronk