My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
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-… — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice… — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were… — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of… — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a… — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
