Robert Quine Quotes

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

  Robert Quine

  Punk, Standards, Primitive

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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.

  Robert Quine

  Summer, Jobs, Sick

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

  Robert Quine

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Transformed

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

  Robert Quine

  Reading, Hateful, Mathematics

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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.

  Robert Quine

  Emotional, Stuff, Howlin Wolf

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

  Robert Quine

  Jazz, Exhausted

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• I never really followed grunge.

  Robert Quine

  Grunge

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

  Robert Quine

  Funny, Song, Ugly

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

  Robert Quine

  New York, August, People

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

  Robert Quine

  Piano, Lessons, Piano Lesson

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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.

  Robert Quine

  Fighting, Thinking, Guitar

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

  Robert Quine

  Stuff, Funky, Kenny

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

  Robert Quine

  Home, Play

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

  Robert Quine

  Records, Four, Genes

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

  Robert Quine

  Suicide, Saws

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

  Robert Quine

  Listening, Stuff, Miles

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