Primitive Quote by Robert Quine Download Open image “By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.” — Robert Quine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Primitive Punk Standards Virtuoso
I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not at all like the tough, sexy femme fatale in Confidence but it's fun to play people who're really different from you,… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing. — Edgar Meyer Copy Share Image
I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history,… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Any time people are breaking outside the norm and playing something that isn't expected - that feels like punk to me. — Tim Commerford Copy Share Image
I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk… — Travis Barker 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
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
Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that… — John Wayne Copy Share
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't… — Michael Schultz Copy Share Image
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism. — Robert Barron Copy Share
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image