Quote by Dave Van Ronk Download Open image ““You can be a mighty sailor, wrestling with an alligator. Romping through the swamp.”” — Dave Van Ronk ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I’ve wrestled an alligator before. It wasn’t alive, but I still pinned it down. I was trying to impress a woman, and I bet… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Logs drowse in the pond Dreaming of their heroes Alligator and crocodile” — Vern Rutsala Copy Share Image
“Swim. I shove myself off the dock with my feet and fucking flail as hard as I can.” — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“Where was I when the rockets came to life, and carried you away into the alligator sky.?” — Owl City Copy Share Image
“I’ll have to watch what I say around you. I’ll stick to big-tough-guy words, like bullets, and barbed wire, and battleships.” — Vivian Arend Copy Share Image
“Little bucktoothed alligator ready to taste my bills. Make something suffer. Make something stick.” — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
“Life is a sail boat ride. Wind, the destiny. But dammit, you are the sailor!” — Tapan Ghosh Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.” — Amanda Grace Copy Share Image
“I could totally be a . . . whatever.” “Sailor?” “On a boat?” “Yep.” “Yeah.” He’ll sigh all wistfully. “I could be a sailor.… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“If I keep the big bugs occupied, can you rescue the Spurns?” He was already stepping out into the water. “No, Dad ... I… — Jaymin Eve Copy Share Image
“i swim across the sea to reach no land unless you speak iam doomed.....!” — felix a samuel 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
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
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
