Dave Van Ronk

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.

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

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

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.