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 discover…

- 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

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

- Dave Van Ronk

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

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…

- Dave Van Ronk

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

- Dave Van Ronk

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 wonde…

- Dave Van Ronk

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

- Dave Van Ronk

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

- Dave Van Ronk