Dave Van Ronk

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#because #bone #cruelest #feel #game

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#business #get #i #out #tired

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#good #i #jazz #later #mainstream

I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#i #record #sometimes #think #two

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#common #i #i think #might #more

I'm a very, very stubborn man. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#man #stubborn #very

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#i #kid

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

#down #essentially #four #got #his

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

#doing #front #going #good #i

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

#asked #class #count #family #father