Cruelest Quote by Dave Van Ronk

“Why must the show go on?”

— Dave Van Ronk

And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

— 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

I'm a very, very stubborn man.

— Dave Van Ronk

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

— 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

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

“March 1958 issue, for example, notes that “Dave Van Ronk, like so many other Village characters, has affected a beard.”

— 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…

— Dave Van Ronk

“You can be a mighty sailor, wrestling with an alligator. Romping through the swamp.”

— 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

I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.

— Dave Van Ronk