"My uncle and my grandfather both worked in……" — Dave Van Ronk
"My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard."
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23 Quotes by Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk has 23 quotes on this site.
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You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way…
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Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and…
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I'm a very, very stubborn man.
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God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.
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One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or…
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Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.
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Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded…
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In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although…
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Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.
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By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.
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I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
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I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.
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