List of Dave Van Ronk Quotes

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Dave Van Ronk
Total Quotes 23
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.
Mother Father Class
By the mid-70s, i wanted to get out of the business. i was tired anyway.
Tired Wanted
I don't think i went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.
Thinking Years Two
I think i have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. we're putting things together.
Thinking Together Might
I'm an exhibitionist, i was an exhibitionist as a kid.
Kids Exhibitionist
One of my earliest memories... i knew three full verses of the star spangled banner when i was seven or eight years old. and one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and i was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.
Stars Memories Eight
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the brooklyn navy yard.
Uncles Grandfather Navy
I'm a very, very stubborn man.
Men Stubborn
Most of what i listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
Heart Cool Jazz Bebop
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. it stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
Cutting Musician Jazz
And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect i think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'
Thinking Laughing Retrospect
In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. the rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.
Labels Records Rooms
  • Born: June 30, 1936
  • Died: February 10, 2002
  • Occupation: Singer
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