Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk
David Kenneth Ritz "Dave" Van Ronkwas an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth30 June 1936
CountryUnited States of America
labels crackers boxes
If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.
mother father class
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.
musician jazz helping
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.
uncles grandfather navy
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
thinking laughing may
And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'
success congratulations way
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.
real skills asymmetry
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.
way strings
God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.
hurt honesty games
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.
basically continuing mark officer school send
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 I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.