--- title: "1 Just Cut Quotes By Dave Van Ronk" description: "1 Just Cut quotes by Dave Van Ronk. Plus more from Dave Van Ronk and more Just Cut sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ed/dave-van-ronk-21329_blues_most-blues-don-t-have-a-beginning-middle_2862955.jpg" --- > [Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/most-blues-don-t-have-a-beginning-middle-or-end-you-just-cut-a-couple/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-van-ronk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ed/dave-van-ronk-21329_blues_most-blues-don-t-have-a-beginning-middle_2862955.jpg) ## More by Dave Van Ronk > [“Why must the show go on?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/why-must-the-show-go-on/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-van-ronk/) > [And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/and-then-adds-with-a-laugh-but-in-retrospect-i-think-he-may-have-been/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-van-ronk/) > [I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/i-think-i-have-more-in-common-with-a-carpenter-than-you-might-think/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-van-ronk/) > [I'm a very, very stubborn man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/i-m-a-very-very-stubborn-man/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-van-ronk/) > [By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/by-the-mid-70s-i-wanted-to-get-out-of-the-business-i-was-tired-anyway/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-van-ronk/) > [I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/i-cut-myself-off-from-the-mainstream-of-jazz-it-stood-me-in-good/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-van-ronk/) > [Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/honesty-is-the-cruelest-game-of-all-because-not-only-can-you-hurt/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/they-basically-said-that-if-i-didn-t-show-up-for-school-they-d-mark/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-van-ronk/) > [“March 1958 issue, for example, notes that “Dave Van Ronk, like so many other Village characters, has affected a beard.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/march-1958-issue-for-example-notes-that-dave-van-ronk-like-so-many/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-van-ronk/) > [If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/if-there-was-ever-any-truth-to-the-trickle-down-theory-the-only/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-van-ronk/) > [“You can be a mighty sailor, wrestling with an alligator. Romping through the swamp.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/you-can-be-a-mighty-sailor-wrestling-with-an-alligator-romping/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/most-of-what-i-listen-to-now-is-mainstream-jazz-from-1935-right-up-to/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-van-ronk/) > [I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/i-don-t-think-i-went-a-year-or-so-without-a-record-between-1959-and/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/in-the-early-1970s-1971-72-the-rooms-were-closing-down-record-labels/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-van-ronk/) > [“Every corpse is a patriot.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/every-corpse-is-a-patriot/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-van-ronk/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/just-cut/dave-van-ronk/#itemlist", "name": "1 Just Cut Quotes By Dave Van Ronk", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. 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