41 Quotes by Dave Van Ronk

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.

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

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

I'm a very, very stubborn man.

And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.

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.

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

I’m a very, very stubborn man.