I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician. Dave Van Ronk Read Quote
I don’t think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two. Dave Van Ronk Read Quote
Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It’s a wonderful song. Dave Van Ronk Read Quote
If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it – and I have the tapes to prove this – it’s not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience. Dave Van Ronk Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes. Dave Van Ronk Read Quote
If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn’t count. Dave Van Ronk Read Quote
