Robert Quine Quotes
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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.
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From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.
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Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
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By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
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I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.
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Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.
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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.
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My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.
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I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.
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After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
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I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.
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Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.
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I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.
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I never really followed grunge.
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The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.
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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.
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