All Robert Quine Quotes
My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.
Robert Quine
59% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.
Robert Quine
55% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
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
53% of people like this quote
I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.
Robert Quine
51% of people like this quote
Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.
Robert Quine
51% of people like this quote
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
Robert Quine
50% of people like this quote
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
Robert Quine
49% of people like this quote
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
48% of people like this quote
I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.
Robert Quine
48% of people like this quote
From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.
Robert Quine
48% of people like this quote
Related authors