The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edi...
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Source: Mayor of MacDougal Street by Dave Van Ronk (7-Nov-2013) Paperback
“By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.”
“I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.”
“I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.”
“When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.”
“My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.”
Source: The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edition]: A Memoir
“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.”
Source: The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edition]: A Memoir