“ 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
“ They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month… 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
“ 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
“ 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
