I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two. — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
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 much been getting out of that for some time before that. — 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
