Van Ronk Quotes: top 31 famous quotes about Van Ronk

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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

Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead. — William Holden

In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth. — Wallace Stegner

I felt emptied-out and singing with echoes, unrecognizable to myself: that particular feeling like your own house on the day you move out. — Barbara Kingsolver

What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was. — Oscar Isaac

For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs. — Albert Hammond Jr.

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. — Phyllis Schlafly

Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what's right. — 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

Today is yesterday, today is tomorrow. For it's only one day that comes and goes, over and over again. — C.C. Wyatt

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them. — Ivan Illich

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. — Dave Van Ronk

Before brains there was no color or sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no feeling or emotion. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff. — Kina Grannis

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together. — Dave Van Ronk

Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues. — 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

With the proper diet, no doctor is necessary.
With the improper diet, no doctor can help — Gabriel Cousens

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

I'm a very, very stubborn man. — Dave Van Ronk

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel. — Dave Van Ronk

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world. — Dave Van Ronk

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid. — Dave Van Ronk

My mouth dries up. I know I am not apologizing for the picture. I am sorry for being there in the first place. — Lynda Mullaly Hunt

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work. — Dave Van Ronk

God has a way of telling you when to change your strings. — Dave Van Ronk

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well. — Will Self

Superstition is the poison of the mind. — Joseph Lewis

If it can't be done in bed, it's not worth doing. — 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