Robert Quine quotes

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

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Occupation: American Musician
Born: December 30, 1942
Died: May 31, 2004
Quotes count: 17