I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together. — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.' — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together. — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway. — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician. — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
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… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
“March 1958 issue, for example, notes that “Dave Van Ronk, like so many other Village characters, has affected a beard.” — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
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… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
“You can be a mighty sailor, wrestling with an alligator. Romping through the swamp.” — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
