Robert Quine Quotes

"My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to."
- Robert Quine
(Related: Listening)

"Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71."
- Robert Quine
(Related: People)

"It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff."
- Robert Quine

"I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience."
- Robert Quine
(Related: Experience)

"Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics."
- Robert Quine
(Related: Music, Mathematics, Reading)

"I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting."
- Robert Quine
(Related: Fighting, Pretty)

"I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying."
- Robert Quine
(Related: Pretty, Suicide)

"I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else."
- Robert Quine
(Related: Holly, Years)

"I never really followed grunge."
- Robert Quine

"From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home."
- Robert Quine
(Related: Home, Play, Public)

"Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records."
- Robert Quine
(Related: Time)

"By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job."
- Robert Quine
(Related: Tax, Job, Summer)

"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
- Robert Quine
(Related: Punk)

"After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz."
- Robert Quine
(Related: Jazz)

"I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me."
- Robert Quine

"I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands."
- Robert Quine
(Related: Tax, Job, Play, Voice)

"The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with."
- Robert Quine
(Related: Songs, Ugly)