Robert Quine Quotes

I never really followed grunge.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

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

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

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.

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.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

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.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.