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