Robert Quine famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Rocks #Rock And Roll
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
I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.
-- Robert Quine

#Stuff #Funky #Kenny
From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.
-- Robert Quine

#Home #Play
Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.
-- Robert Quine

#Four #Records #Genes
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
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
-- Robert Quine

#Punk #Standards #Primitive
I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.
-- Robert Quine

#Suicide #Saws
The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.
-- Robert Quine

#Song #Ugly #Stones
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
-- Robert Quine

#Reading #Hateful #Mathematics
After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
-- Robert Quine

#Jazz #Exhausted
I never really followed grunge.
-- Robert Quine

#Grunge
I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.
-- Robert Quine

#Piano #Lessons #Piano Lesson
My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.
-- Robert Quine

#Listening #Stuff #Miles

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